<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Richard Fairhurst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net" target="_blank">richard@systemed.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Paul Johnson wrote:<br>
> Not quite. American expressways sometimes, but not always, have<br>
> driveways, tracks and service roads connecting, German<br>
> motorroads don't.<br>
<br>
</div>Oh, sure. But you don't need me to tell you that slight national variations<br>
in the exact meaning of OSM highway tagging are nothing new.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, let's look at the big picture: We can warp yet another tag for regionalism, or we can leave it alone and just tag it as a trunk, which is just as specific (and perhaps more desirable since it doesn't come with a lot of the baggage established usage has, like default access). </div>
</div>