<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Do., 22. Juni 2023 um 12:36 Uhr schrieb Brian M. Sperlongano <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
yes, but motorway is an exception because it is usually defined by signs rather than characteristics (e.g. if the signs are missing but it looks and feels like, we use motorroad=yes in some countries)</blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Iknow you said 'usually' but this sounds like a very European perspective to me. We have no such distinction in the US. I've learned on this project to be quite careful about projecting what we think to be a normal structure onto other locations in the world. In the US it's a motorway if it's physically constructed like one, and there's many edge cases that we scratch our heads on.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I believe the US is an exception then, at least the current wiki confirms what I wrote (and in this case I didn't write it myself ;-) ) , from highway=motorway:<br></div><div><p>Typically <tt dir="ltr" class="gmail-mw-content-ltr" style="background:rgb(238,238,255);font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway" title="Key:highway">highway</a>=<a class="gmail-mw-selflink gmail-selflink">motorway</a></tt> should be <b><u>used only on roads with <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled-access_highway">control of access</a></u></b>, or selected roads with <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-access_road">limited access</a> depending on the local context and prevailing convention.
</p><p>Generally roads with <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled-access_highway">control of access</a>
are proclaimed in government documents, and have an official status as a
controlled access road, sometimes this can include the term motorway,
freeway or expressway among others in the road name. These kinds of
roads usually have a special designation by the law, with a set of laws
specifically applied on them. Generally some restrictions are placed on
the kind of vehicles or traffic which can be on roads which should be
classed as <tt dir="ltr" class="gmail-mw-content-ltr" style="background:rgb(238,238,255);font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway" title="Key:highway">highway</a>=<a class="gmail-mw-selflink gmail-selflink">motorway</a></tt>, such as no pedestrians, bicycles, livestock, horses and so on.
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