[OSM-newbies] highway shapefiles - how to translate road types?

[Cartinus]

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 00:04:03 Guillaume Mauger wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a follow-up question to my earlier newbie question regarding getting
> the shapefiles. I now have them (thanks!) and am working on interpreting
> the "highway" (contains all roads) shapefile.
>
> Below is the list of road-types contained in the shapefiles (18 different
> categories in all).
>
> Where can I find information that defines what all of these terms mean?
> Specifically, I just need to know which roads can be driven on, and which
> cannot.

<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>

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m.v.g.,
Cartinus