[Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 21. Dec 2019, at 01:10, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, the road classification system in parts of Continental
> Europe was different, so mappers in some major countries, including
> Germany and France, chose to use highway=trunk as synonym for
> "motorroad" (somewhat similar to a U.S.A. "expressway"), with other
> major roads tagged as highway=primary.


actually not, the motorroad tag was introduced by the Germans (AFAIK) to express a typical access situation on many trunks but also some primaries (motorway like access), so that trunk (motorway like physical construction) and access could be tagged orthogonally. There are also some trunks that permit slower traffic in Germany.

Cheers Martin