<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>The original example <br><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8190845,-76.8530417,857m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-US">https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8190845,-76.8530417,857m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-US</a><br></div>is now a set of ways that can be used as non-freeway highways. I would most likely tag them as either service or track with surface and tracktype tags. Important to check on the ground the access rights and add exact width, surface and smoothness tags.<br></div>In addition I would tag them in addition with abandoned:highway=motorway if they were ever used as freeways (which seem not to be the case). I would not use the construction tag as this would mean that this is part of a freeway under construction.<br><br></div>Volker<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 March 2017 at 05:28, John F. Eldredge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@jfeldredge.com" target="_blank">john@jfeldredge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin:0 0 1em 0;color:black">In some cases, the distinction
between "abandoned" and "on indefinite hold" can be a bit blurry. One ring
road here in Nashville, TN, USA was left in an incomplete state for about
twenty years before the politicians finally allocated the money, and the
last segment of the road was built.<br>
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February 27, 2017 1:09:03 PM Kevin Kenny
<<a href="mailto:kevin.b.kenny%2Bosm@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevin.b.kenny+osm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon,
Feb 27, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Paul Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" target="_blank">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">For the above situation, I'd tag it
as highway=construction, construction=* and abandoned=yes since it was
abandoned under construction... <br></div></div>
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reluctant to use different <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix" target="_blank">lifecycle</a>
stages for the same object.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">How relevant
is it to map the fact that it skipped 'present' and
'disused'<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">and went directly to
'abandoned' from 'construction'? Is that fact
visible<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">on the ground and
important?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Example near me: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/36835272" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>way/36835272</a>
is a<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">motorway link that was abandoned
during construction. Construction<br>never began for the associated
motorway, which would have run<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">northwest
into the airport. The link was repurposed as the ring road<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">surrounding an office park, which therefore enjoys a
disproportionately<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">large motorway
interchange combined with very poor access to the<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">local surface streets.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I found no reason to tag the history of the road.
It's the ring road of<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">an office park
now.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Random trivia: There was
infighting among agencies of the state<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">government regarding the proposal. Part of the reason
for building<br><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6121261" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>relation/6121261</a>
where it stands<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">was that it was then the
offices of the Conservation Department,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">and was sited to block the proposed route. In a supreme
irony,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">the Transportation Department now
occupies the building. In the<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">last fifty
years, enough development has taken place that it<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">would not be feasible to route a motorway through
there. At<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">the time of the proposal, which
was finally abandoned in 1970,<br>the area of the proposed route was mostly
swamp land.<br></div></div></div></div><span class="">
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