> > (Trim the crap and return to sanity ;) ) > The definition in the UK would mean that motorway and motorway_link ARE > always > one way and anything that needed to be two way would not be flagged as > 'motorway' but no doubt parallels in other countries are not quite so > clear cut? > Perhaps the OSM definition of motorway should include the restriction of a > single direction carriageway and move anything else to 'trunk'? > The UK definition is any road defined as a motorway. Anything beyond http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Zeichen_330.svg this sign is a motorway.
In the UK we even have single-carriageway sections of motorway. e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.71933&lon=-2.63209&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF here It's not a sliproad - it's really single carriageway - and it has blue-backed motorway signs. It has all of the usual motorway regulations applying - no cycles, no pedestrians, no learners - you can drive a car legally at 70mph on it (but given the length of it, it's only easy to do so in the downhill direction with most cars) etc. There's another one here - part of the A601(M) http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.12654&lon=-2.74652&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF These should be motorways on OSM - they are in reality. Personally, I tag motorways and motorway_links with oneway=yes if they are oneway. That way we don't go making any false assumptions. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
