[Tagging] RFC on two proposals: Motorway indication; Expressway indication

[Martin Simon]

2010/7/14 David ``Smith'' <vidthekid at gmail.com>:
>> From: fly <lowflight66 at googlemail.com>
>> Please have a look at motorroad=yes/no and show the differences between that and
>> your proposals on the proposal-pages.
>
> I was not aware of this tag.  It's not significantly used in America.
> I took a look at the wiki page, and it does indeed seem quite similar.
>  However, it will take me time to fully grasp the precise meaning and
> flavor of the terms used there, before I can determine whether the
> "Motorway indication" proposal is redundant to it.  If so, a possible
> outcome might be to modify the proposal to simply adding
> motorroad=substandard to the existing key, as well as further
> rendering enhancements and wider promotion of the key's usage.

Hi!

Please be aware that the "motorroad" tag is not about motorway-like
grade seperation, but only motorway-like access restrictions.

I think a combination of motorroad=* and grade_seperated=* would do
the job quite well (and could describe any combination of these
criteria).

-Martin