[Talk-us] Minimum standards for motorways?
Dion Dock
dion_dock at comcast.net
Sat Jan 1 17:00:01 GMT 2011
> Question: what do people think about minimum standards for tagging
> something highway=motorway? In other words, would it be reasonable to
> tag a highway as trunk rather than motorway because it has no
> shoulders or a low speed limit (40 mph)?
There are plenty of motorways in Portland OR that have no, or minimal, shoulders. I think the defining trait of a motorway is there are no traffic lights. I can think of a road that looks like an interstate highway even to the 55 mph speed limit but it has traffic lights. That says "trunk" to me.
-Dion
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