On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 23:23 -0500, Bone Killian wrote: > > certainly a highway that meets the > > standards without being designated should be tagged as motorway, but > as > > IMHO the only thing that qualifies a road as a motorway (in the US) is > the big red and blue signage identifying it as part of the interstate > highway system.
Have you actually read the highway definition on the map features page? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features It has zero to do with shiny red signs. :) In fact, there are even stretches of interstate in this country which aren't technically motorways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_93 : > I-93 passes through Franconia Notch State Park as a Super-2 parkway, > the only instance of a two-lane Interstate highway in the United > States. This stretch carries a 45 mile per hour speed limit. For the > trip through Franconia Notch, I-93 and U.S. Route 3 run concurrently. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us
