[Openstreetmap] UK Motorways 100% Complete

[Nick Whitelegg]

>> For them to show up on Freemap they would need to be annotated as:
>
>> class=motorway; car=yes

>Which is wonderful in theory, except for the fact that most people
>editing openstreetmap probably still use the applet, which doesn't know
>how to set, or make sensible use of, any tags other than "name".

So what I guess you're saying is that the applet should be able to set
tags?

>Is there a reason you chose thick black to represent a motorway? Almost
>every (european) map I've seen uses a thick mid-blue with a black
>outline to represent a motorway carriageway. This colour corresponds
>with the standard colour of motorway signs, which in HTML speak is
>COLOR="#007BC6".

I was intending on using blue for rivers, and using blue for motorways as
well might confuse things - even if they are a different shade of blue.

Nick