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

[Joseph Barnes]

I'm slowly working on it, specifically on the non-grade-separated areas. I got this from the Scottsbluff, NE bypass (which I did NOT do), so that's the originator. I just happened to have a lot of time on my hands and be bored.

I only started doing this after late January this winter, so that should narrow it down a bit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.murray at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 6:18 PM
To: talk-us
Subject: [Talk-us] User bumping all grade-separated intersections to motorway

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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