The commonly accepted definition of freeways in the US excludes surface junctions, whereas expressways (trunks) does include intersections. I honestly am surprised a group of roadgeeks isn't more attuned to this distinction.
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 3:15 PM Adam Franco <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 1:36 AM Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 12:30 AM Bryan Housel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I do understand your point, but a dozen or so people on talk-us and the >>> six or so people on that changeset 64919426 >>> >> >> Well, 1 person, an AA roads troll and like 5 sockpuppets. There's also a >> number of people in this thread that do agree with me. >> >> >>> discussion all disagree with you. Is there nothing that would make you >>> reconsider? >>> >> >> Get the commonly used definition of a freeway changed to include >> intersections. Good luck! >> > > Since you are asking for more declaration of support/opposition, I'm a > relatively disinterested-in-motorways mapper that has been following along > with this thread. Paul, I think your read of a motorway definition is > overly rigid and I agree with Richie, Bryan, and the others that a motorway > classification may continue beyond the last interchange. > > If one is traveling past the last interchange one may be traveling in a > "motorway zone" where high speeds, grade separation of crossing roads, dual > carriageway, etc all continue to exist. As Richie pointed out, there will > be some place where "caution freeway ends", "intersection ahead" or slowing > speed limit signage indicates a transition out of the motorway zone to > something else. That seems like a vastly more appropriate place to change > the tagging from motorway to trunk/primary. Choosing the point of the last > interchange doesn't make sense as there may be many miles on both sides of > the last interchange where the roadway is functionally the same -- where > standing and looking at the road it shows all of the characteristics of a > motorway. It is confusing to think that an at-grade intersection far over > the horizon would force a long final segment of road to change > classification. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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