On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 19:31, Martin Koppenhoefer<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/5 David Lynch <[email protected]>: >>> 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? > > Well I can't tell from personal knowledge, German WIkipedia says you got this: > http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:I-95.svg&filetimestamp=20070518055237
That indicates that it's part of the Interstate system. Every highway on the Interstate system is a motorway-class (high-speed and grade-separated) road, but not every motorway-class road in the United States is an Interstate. There is no equivalent to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zeichen_330.svg to draw a clear line between highway=motorway and highway=something else. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
