[Talk-us-massachusetts] Mass state routes & interstates using ramp tag

[Peter Dobratz]

Highway on-ramps and off-ramps should be indicated with the
highway=motorway_link tag:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_link

(or trunk_link, primary_link etc matching the highest classification of the
connected road).

"On-ramp" and "Off-ramp" are American English terms.  As this OSM project
originated in the UK, most of words used for tags is British English.

So, yes, remove the ramp tag from highway on-ramps and off-ramps in
Massachusetts.

Peter


On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 7:59 AM Wayne Emerson, Jr. via
Talk-us-massachusetts <talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Looking more closely it looks like all the on-ramps in MA have this tag.
> Only 3 sections of Route 3 have it. So it is not all the state routes. I
> have only been editing OSM for a few months, so I am never sure about
> anything or what to do about it. My guess would be someone should check
> if this messes up any bicycle or wheelchair type maps. Remember that guy
> last month that took his wheelchair into the Pru tunnel?
>
> -Wayne (User Rassilon in OSM)
>
> On 4/12/2019 9:48 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > "Wayne Emerson, Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts"
> > <talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> writes:
> >
> >> The wiki for this key
> >>
> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ramp
> >>
> >> says in the description: "Whether a ramp for bicycles, strollers,
> >> wheelchairs or luggage is built into a stairway" The sidebar says it
> >> Requires "highway=steps". By chance I discovered a section of Route 3
> >> with ramp=yes. (Not the on-ramp) I checked all the New England states
> >> with overpass-turbo and no other state uses this tag on state routes
> >> or interstates, whereas Massachusetts uses it on almost every major
> >> highway, probably thousands of times. I'm pretty sure interstates are
> >> quite stair free, though the potholes might count. Is the wiki
> >> incorrect?
> > In the history of OSM, Massachusetts is pretty different in a few ways.
> > One is that roads from MassGIS (really from the EOT, now MassDOT) were
> > imported before the big TIGER import for the rest of the country.  This
> > was back in the time when everything including imports was much less
> > organized and reviewed.
> >
> > I am guessing that perhaps this made sense at the time and is from that
> > import (2008?).  I would look at some of the places that have it and
> > back at the history, and maybe we can figure out how it came to be, and
> > if we should be cleaning it up, or if it's not causing trouble and it's
> > low on the priority list to fix.
> >
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