<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" class="">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:55 PM, John Willis <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank" class="">johnw@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What's the difference between an alley and a motorway besides width?</blockquote></div><br class="">How it drains, how thick the hard surface is, lane width, paved shoulders, buildings not adjacent to the roadway with doors extending into the road (saw a collision between a building door opening just in time to get slammed shut by a slow moving truck that happened to be going down the alley; person opening the door was OK), no direct access, lack of dumpsters in the travel lanes, through traffic...</div></div>
_______________________________________________<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks for spelling that out for me.</div><div><br class=""></div><div> I was rebutting a comment about fences, trying to illustrate that there is more to something besides a dimension (height of a barrier, width of a road),</div><div> and those other variables (and usage) might place it into another category.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Javbw</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Tagging mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org" class="">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>