Yes, and out west, where there are long lonely stretches of
interstate, there seem to be places where bicycle access is allowed.
I am thinking of I-40 east of Barslow, where another mapper (sorry,
don't remember who) told me that it was correct after I asked him about it.
Charlotte
At 03:10 PM 6/26/2013, you wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Paul Johnson
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
On Jun 25, 2013 9:51 PM, "Chris Lawrence"
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
> IMO the first criterion I'd look for is: does this road carry the same
> restrictions associated with a freeway in the state in question? For
> example, in many states, freeways have posted access restriction signs
> limiting use by pedestrians, bikes, low-cc motorized vehicles, and
> sometimes farm equipment. If it does, it's a motorway, at least where
> those restrictions apply. If it doesn't, it's not.
That would mean most freeways including interstates in the west,
with the exception of limited sections in the bay area, southwestern
California, central Portland and urban Seattle wouldn't be
motorways, as restricting pedestrians and bicycles is unusual in 34 states.
I don't think Chris is suggesting that posted access restrictions
should be a sole criterion for tagging a highway as "motorway."
In Kansas, Signs indicating access restrictions are posted on the
on-ramps to interstates and some (but *not* all) non-interstate
freeways. K-10, for instance, has posted access restrictions on the
Douglas County segment, but not on the Johnson County segment. Both
sections of K-10 in question, however, are clearly freeway, and
properly tagged as "motorway" in OSM.
Back to the question at hand (how to treat super-two facilities):
While KDOT *state* maps do not distinguish between 2-lane controlled
access and non-controlled access facilities (and, since 2010, the
same applies to non-interstate 4-lane facilities,) *county* level
maps published after 2007 do show controlled-access facilities,
regardless of the number of lanes. Those county maps show US 169
between Chanute and Iola as a controlled-access facility. Thus, it
is properly tagged as motorway under Chris's second suggestion ("If
it has full access control, it's a motorway. If not, it's not one.")
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