[OSM-newbies] primary_junction as motorway_junction?

Xan dxpublica at telefonica.net
Sat Jun 5 21:15:25 BST 2010


En/na David ``Smith'' ha escrit:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net> wrote:
>   
>> Is there any way of specifying a "primary_junction" as we do in
>> motorway_junction?
>>
>> Xan.
>>     
>
> I think the concept of motorway_junction is simply to refer to an
> Interchange, as defined here:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_%28road%29>  Trunks,
> primaries, and even sometimes secondary roads can have these
> interchanges, so for very short sections the roads look like
> motorways.  I think using motorway_junction nodes is correct even if
> the actual road is not tagged as a motorway.
>
>   
Thanks. This solve many problems like this: 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.560767&lon=2.992844&zoom=18&layers=B000FTTT
(see the primary and primary_link (Montuïri-Porreres))
and this
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.562231&lon=2.972362&zoom=18&layers=B000FTT

(name in one node in roundabout)


I put this info in the wiki: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_junction


Thanks,
Xan.




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