[Talk-us] Tagging a super-two highway (trunk or motorway?)

[Charlotte Wolter]

         Yes, and out west, where there are long lonely stretches of 
interstate, there seem to be places where bicycle access is allowed. 
I am thinking of I-40 east of Barslow, where another mapper (sorry, 
don't remember who) told me that it was correct after I asked him about it.

Charlotte

At 03:10 PM 6/26/2013, you wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Paul Johnson 
><<mailto:baloo at ursamundi.org>baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>
>
>On Jun 25, 2013 9:51 PM, "Chris Lawrence" 
><<mailto:lordsutch at gmail.com>lordsutch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > IMO the first criterion I'd look for is: does this road carry the same
> > restrictions associated with a freeway in the state in question?  For
> > example, in many states, freeways have posted access restriction signs
> > limiting use by pedestrians, bikes, low-cc motorized vehicles, and
> > sometimes farm equipment.  If it does, it's a motorway, at least where
> > those restrictions apply.  If it doesn't, it's not.
>
>That would mean most freeways including interstates in the west, 
>with the exception of limited sections in the bay area, southwestern 
>California, central Portland and urban Seattle wouldn't be 
>motorways, as restricting pedestrians and bicycles is unusual in 34 states.
>
>I don't think Chris is suggesting that posted access restrictions 
>should be a sole criterion for tagging a highway as "motorway."
>
>In Kansas, Signs indicating access restrictions are posted on the 
>on-ramps to interstates and some (but *not* all) non-interstate 
>freeways. K-10, for instance, has posted access restrictions on the 
>Douglas County segment, but not on the Johnson County segment. Both 
>sections of K-10 in question, however, are clearly freeway, and 
>properly tagged as "motorway" in OSM.
>
>Back to the question at hand (how to treat super-two facilities): 
>While KDOT *state* maps do not distinguish between 2-lane controlled 
>access and non-controlled access facilities (and, since 2010, the 
>same applies to non-interstate 4-lane facilities,) *county* level 
>maps published after 2007 do show controlled-access facilities, 
>regardless of the number of lanes. Those county maps show US 169 
>between Chanute and Iola as a controlled-access facility. Thus, it 
>is properly tagged as motorway under Chris's second suggestion ("If 
>it has full access control, it's a motorway.  If not, it's not one.")
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