Motorway is mainly physical. The point is that it most definitely isn't defined by importance. A motorway is the part of a trunk road that has grade-separated junctions, and is on a new alignment, or does by some other means keep slow traffic out of harm's way.
My concern stands - beware putting a statement at the top of a wiki page that is only partly true. Richard On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:17 AM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 19:02, Martin Koppenhoefer<[email protected]> > wrote: > > 2009/8/5 Richard Mann <[email protected]>: > >> I'd agree that it should be "importance" for > >> trunk/primary/secondary/tertiary. The stuff about not using trunk for > >> single-track roads just doesn't match what people are actually doing > >> (judging by some of the roads in the Western Highlands). The physical > tends > >> to align to the importance, but what we actually tend to tag is the > >> importance (usually based on the type of signs). > > > > Yes, I agree that there is some highway-types that are defined legally > > and not according to their importance (motorroad, pedestrian, > > living_street, cycleway, bridleway, etc.). > > > >> However, motorway is physical > > > > no, I don't agree. A highway becomes motorway when it get's legally > > promoted to be a motorway (by the motorway-sign this is indicated). > > The USA has no such sign, nor do Canada and Mexico (AFAIK.) Do we have > no motorways? > > -- > David J. Lynch > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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