[OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Richard Bullock <rb357 at cantab.net> wrote:

> > Maybe we should be mapping slipways, hopefully there's a better approach
> > than marking them all as fully fledged roads though.
> >
> Sliproads are tagged as highway=xyz_link
>
> e.g. a sliproad to a motorway would be highway=motorway_link
> sliproad to a trunk road would be highway=trunk_link etc.
>
> Ah, I didn't know it went all the way down to secondary_link. (But not
tertiary_link?)

Can renderers improve their render quality at lower zoom levels by not
rendering (certain) link roads? Ie, given road A-B-C, with incoming road
D-B, and link D-A, perhaps it could not render D-A.

Steve
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