[OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

[John Smith]

On 3 July 2010 19:50, Konrad Skeri <konrad at skeri.com> wrote:
> One possibility is to just use highway=link and then let the renderes
> sort out the rest. A link is after all just a link no matter what it

It may not be possible for preprocessing or renderers to figure it out.

> connects, so there's really no reason for a *_link except when tagging
> for the renderer, which we shouldn't do.

As a few people pointed out, we always tag some things for the
renderer, like highway=primary/secondary/etc...