[Tagging] Highway links and direct access to properties

[Fernando Trebien]

Hello,

In my area, some organized editing activities have changed the
classification of some ways from a normal type to a link type [1] (for
example: highway=primary to highway=primary_link). [2] Those ways
function as links, but they also provide direct access to properties.
>From a semantic point of view, I find it a little strange that they
are mapped as links. From a pragmatic point of view, this does not
affect routing, but the rendering looks strange. Although I am using a
specific edit as an example, this has been an open question for many
local mappers for some time. What do you think?

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_link
[2] https://osmcha.org/changesets/93073590/

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Fernando Trebien