[Openstreetmap] UK Motorways 100% Complete

[David Cantrell]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:48:39PM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> 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.

It seems to work OK on printed maps.  The shapes that motorways and
rivers make are completely different - motorways like going straight, or
with gentle curves, and remain the same width, whereas rivers waggle all
over the place, change width, have very different junctions, ...

Canals are less perverse in their routes etc than rivers are, but even
they don't really cause confusion.

Also, dual carriageways (and hence motorways) are often shown with a black
line up the middle to seperate the carriageways.  You never see that on
a river.

So really, using different shades of blue for motorways and rivers
shouldn't cause you any problems.

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