[Tagging] highway=motorway and motorroad (implies)

Martin Simon grenzdebil at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 06:22:59 BST 2010


2010/6/11 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:

> good point actually. I think it would be better to tag these service
> areas as motorway_service instead of a simple service. That would make
> it a lot easier to see them if your on the motorway (-zoom level).
> (highway=service, service=motorway might be better for consistency).

As service=* tags for highway service seem to be in widespread use
these days, I'd rather propose service=motorway_service or
service=lay-by for this use. (or another term that is more accurate
for this kind of service ways)

-Martin




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