[Talk-us] [Tagging] Trunk VS primary,

[Joseph Eisenberg]

Thank you for the correction. So highway=trunk in German is similar to
expressway=yes in the USA?

Joseph

On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 6:49 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> sent from a phone
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> > On 21. Dec 2019, at 01:10, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, the road classification system in parts of Continental
> > Europe was different, so mappers in some major countries, including
> > Germany and France, chose to use highway=trunk as synonym for
> > "motorroad" (somewhat similar to a U.S.A. "expressway"), with other
> > major roads tagged as highway=primary.
>
>
> actually not, the motorroad tag was introduced by the Germans (AFAIK) to
> express a typical access situation on many trunks but also some primaries
> (motorway like access), so that trunk (motorway like physical construction)
> and access could be tagged orthogonally. There are also some trunks that
> permit slower traffic in Germany.
>
> Cheers Martin
>
>
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