[Tagging] New proposal: Obligatory tagging of oneway on motorway_link

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Fri Sep 11 12:27:55 UTC 2015


On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Kieron Thwaites <kieron.thwaites at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Though I agree in principle with the idea of making tagging more
> > explicit, how big of a practical concern is this? i.e. how many times in
> > the real world is motorway_link a two-way road?
>
> While I agree such a case is rare, it is possible.
>
> See: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/68433570 -- while this example
> is a trunk_link and not a motorway_link, the trunk road in question
> may be upgraded to motorway one day (and thus the trunk_link).


Annoyingly, there's confusion in the US on whether that would be called a
motorway right now already because of official classifications and a few
backwater DOTs that don't differentiate between partially controlled and
fully controlled in calling something a freeway...
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