> yes, but motorway is an exception because it is usually defined by signs
> rather than characteristics (e.g. if the signs are missing but it looks and
> feels like, we use motorroad=yes in some countries)
Iknow you said 'usually' but this sounds like a very European perspective
to me. We have
But "freeway" is de facto equivalent of motorway, right?
Regards,
Illia.
Brian M. Sperlongano :
>
> yes, but motorway is an exception because it is usually defined by signs
>> rather than characteristics (e.g. if the signs are missing but it looks and
>> feels like, we use motorroad=yes in some
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, 8:08 AM Illia Marchenko
wrote:
> But "freeway" is de facto equivalent of motorway, right?
>
Freeway is a colloquial term that's only used in some parts of the country
and only signed as such in some states and often inconsistently. I assure
you that the on the ground situat
"Brian M. Sperlongano" writes:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, 8:08 AM Illia Marchenko
> wrote:
>
>> But "freeway" is de facto equivalent of motorway, right?
>>
>
> Freeway is a colloquial term that's only used in some parts of the country
> and only signed as such in some states and often inconsistentl
In fact, in my little corner of the country, the term we would use for this
is "highway" and in other places "expressway" means the same thing, which
is hopelessly confusing because these are also OSM keys with different
meanings from the colloquial terminology.
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, 8:28 AM Gre
Martin Koppenhoefer writes:
> sent from a phone
>
>> On 21 Jun 2023, at 15:52, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>
>> It is absolutely the wrong thing to say that shop=firearms means "a shop
>> that sells whatever the local law means by firearms". This is a
>> general principle in OSM that we define someth
Jun 22, 2023, 14:46 by g...@lexort.com:
> Martin Koppenhoefer writes:
>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> On 21 Jun 2023, at 15:52, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>>
>>> It is absolutely the wrong thing to say that shop=firearms means "a shop
>>> that sells whatever the local law means by firearms". This is a
Jun 21, 2023, 15:51 by g...@lexort.com:
> It is absolutely the wrong thing to say that shop=firearms means "a shop
> that sells whatever the local law means by firearms". This is a
> general principle in OSM that we define something and then expect
> mappers to use the OSM definition, not local
