On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 16:04 -0700, stevea wrote: > Martin van Exel writes: > >Following the examples on the wiki, I think it should be fine to tag > >destination=Holt Rd on the motorway_link in this case: > >http://www.aaroads.com/midwest/indiana070/i-070_eb_exit_077_04.jpg - > >for example. Or am I getting that all wrong? The confusion arises > >partly from the strange terminology used on the wiki page like > >'uplinks' and 'downlinks' - I don't understand what those are. > > I don't know for certain what "uplink" and "downlink" are either, but > based on their usage, I strongly suspect they are British English > words to respectively describe "onramp" and "offramp" (in US English).
As a lurking Brit I thought I'd comment here. Uplink and downlink sound like computer comms terms to me. In the UK we use the the term sliproad for what you call ramps, hence on-slip/off-slip entry-slip/exit-slip are commonly used. The word turn off is also used, but seems dated these days. HTH Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
