[OSM-talk] Motorways and Motorway_link

[Philip Homburg]

In your letter dated Sat, 4 Oct 2008 15:33:43 +0100 you wrote:
>My personal practice is to ignore the implication of badly placed
>signs and apply a motorway or motorway_link tag from the point of last
>escape. This provides the most useful view of the on-the-ground facts
>and should also reflect the underlying legislation for the road.

That strikes me as a bad idea. If you use that kind of tagging with a 
device that displays the current speed limit in effect than you get the
very confusing situation that the actual situation differs from the map *by 
design*.

In .nl it is common to place warning signs for cyclists and pedestrians when
a piece of road leads only to a motorway. But if you really want to, you can
walk to the motorway sign. 

Any kind of routing software (in bike or walk mode) will of course ignore
these kinds of deadends anyhow.