[Talk-us-massachusetts] Massachusetts Turnpike: highway=toll_gantry instead of barrier=toll_booth

Greg Troxel gdt at lexort.com
Tue Nov 6 15:47:09 UTC 2018


Yury Yatsynovich <yury.yatsynovich at gmail.com> writes:

> As far as I know, highway=toll_gantry are not rendered on osm.org now and
> I'm not sure about osmand. But it looks like this tag (including a
> corresponding icon for it) has been just recently approved (
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/Toll_Gantry), so, I
> think, we may see them rendered in the future.

Sounds good - and perhaps they affect routers in terms of "avoid tolls" now.

> Couple of toll_gantries (near Lee and West Stockbridge) are at the same
> location where toll_booths used to be, but, true, in general locations do
> not coincide.

Interesting - I had not seen any on exits/approaches.  But it's sparse
out there and not too surprising it's different.



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