> The wiki should not only match the reality, it should suggest proper > behaviour to (new) users. Text like > > If a section of road in the US looks like a motorway then it can > be tagged as a motorway without researching its funding sources or > driving up and down the road looking for an Interstate sign. > > to me suggests lazy tagging. No, that's the way OSM works. Knowledge of local users count's more than signs - at least as far as I understood it.
> In The Netherlands there are two types of motorway, "autoweg" (max > speed = 100 km/h, could have same-level crossings) and "snelweg" (max > speed = 120 km/h, no same-level crossings), which are quite difficult > to discern without driving up to the entrance and checking the signs. > However, they are sufficiently different that I think it's worth it to > either tag it as highway=road and let someone else determine the > proper tag or just to make sure what kind of road something is before > it is tagged. In my opinion the value of the highway-tag is determind by the importance of the road as seen from a local user. If the "autoweg" is much more important in a place as a "snelweg" nearby, it should be tagged higher, regardless of any signs. You are free to add a maxspeed with 100/120 if you want to. Peter _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
