[talk-ph] motorways leading to nowhere?

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 11:49:49 BST 2010


> I passed
> this road several times before when I was mapping POIs at Mariveles and I
> really wondered why it was ever classified as a motorway.

Excellent! Verified info from a person who actually saw the road condition!
Demoted to trunk then.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5057906

>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Ronny Ager-Wick <raw at develo.ltd.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I feel the same. One of the definitions of a motorway is that it
>> "does not cross at level with any road, railway or tramway track, or
>> footpath" (according to wikipedia) so if this road does, then it's
>> definitely not a motorway.
>>
>>
>> Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>>
>> I'm inclined to think that this is merely a trunk road. While it's not a
>> requirement that the road is a tollway as opposed to a freeway to be a
>> motorway, the fact that it's not limited access and has at-grade
>> intersection suggests that it is not really a motorway.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:14 PM, maning sambale
>> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:33 PM, ianlopez <ian_lopez_1115 at yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > AFAIK, the Bataan Provincial Expressway is a two-lane motorway
>>> > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-lane_expressway and
>>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Provincial_Expressway )
>>>
>>> The discussion tab in the above page disputes its class as a motorway.
>>>  However, according to a friend who went there last month, it is
>>> indeed a dual-carriageway but no tollbooths.  I added another
>>> carriageway but didn't changed the motorway tag.  Probably needs an
>>> actual visit
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5048028
>>>
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>>> maning
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