[Talk-us] "highway" tags in the US

[Ian Dees]

This Wikipedia page would be very helpful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_highways_in_the_United_States

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Bone Killian <vitki at bonius.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:55 -0600, Alex Mauer wrote:
>
>
> > certainly a highway that meets the
> > standards without being designated should be tagged as motorway, but as
>
> IMHO the only thing that qualifies a road as a motorway (in the US) is
> the big red and blue signage identifying it as part of the interstate
> highway system.
>
> If we tag things based on what it looks like (subjective) instead of
> what it *is* (objective), the map will be a big mess of different
> colors, without any consistency.
>
> I think we need an 'official' one-to-one mapping of tags to real
> road-types.  Maybe we should arrange some sort of a vote or something?
>
>
> Bone
>
>
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