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

[Lester Caine]

Anthony wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk
> <mailto:lester at lsces.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Ed Avis wrote:
>
>         Isn't this tagging redundant?  If a link road leads from a
>         primary to a
>         secondary, or whatever, this can be seen by looking at the tags
>         for the two
>         roads it connects.  In principle there is no need to duplicate
>         the information.
>
>
>     But how do you know that a way IS a slip from one road to another,
>     and not just another road?
>
>
> You could always have highway=link.
But some links ARE motorway rules and some ARE trunk road so just saying link 
does not work.

> But IMO, it's not a big enough deal to bother changing.
There is a lot of good detail already mapped that does not need changing. Just 
using as it was intended.

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