[Talk-us] User bumping all grade-separated intersections to motorway

[Jack Burke]

I don't see anything immediately wrong with the only segments your Overpass query turns up in Georgia (Savannah).

-jack

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Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology

On June 13, 2016 8:17:59 PM EDT, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
>I just discovered some misguided edits and the user in question seems
>to have made many of them over a wide area so I thought I would put
>people on notice to be aware of this.
>
>While on the Biking Across Kansas tour last week I saw some odd
>looking segments in OsmAnd along US 36 in Kansas. I got home this
>weekend and saw the same thing locally.
>
>Upon investigation it looks like user "SD Mapman" has gone around
>upgrading grade-separated intersections to highway=motorway,
>regardless of any other criteria. So US 36 in Kansas had a random
>section of highway=motorway for less than a mile even though the rest
>of it is highway=primary and it is a two-lane highway with nothing
>between the lanes but a dashed yellow line and sometimes a center
>rumble strip.
>
>He also did not use the oneway=no tag so it has ruined routing of
>single carriageway highways in one direction because routers assume
>motorways are one-way by default.
>
>I made a comment on one of the changesets. I have not received a
>response yet however he is now going back and downgrading them from
>motorway to trunk. I still think this is not correct and will probably
>go back and reclassify them to what they were before his edits, at
>least in Kansas.
>
>According to a quick overpass query, he is the last editor of
>highway=motorway ways in 22 states so these will probably need to be
>reviewed.
>
>Here is a link to the Overpass query (warning: a couple MB of JSON to
>render)
>http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/gMq
>
>Toby
>
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