[Talk-us] Motorway vs trunk

Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhauser at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 20:52:50 GMT 2010


I'm thinking trunk:
1) it shouldn't be motorway because it has grade level intersections
2) the rest of the road is trunk--why have it go from motorway to
trunk and back over a mile?

For the larger issue, here are a few places to look on the wiki for a
variety of perspectives on highway tagging

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#Interstates
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#International_equivalence
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Highway_tag_usage

Brad

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Nakor Osm <nakor.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>   Hello,
>
> What is the distinction made between trunk and motorways for tagging in the
> US. As an example should this portion of US41 (
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.8967&lon=-87.6177&zoom=14 ) be a
> motorway or a trunk?
>
>   Thanks,
>
> N.
>
>
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