> On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:55 PM, John Willis <jo...@mac.com > <mailto:jo...@mac.com>> wrote: > What's the difference between an alley and a motorway besides width? > > How it drains, how thick the hard surface is, lane width, paved shoulders, > buildings not adjacent to the roadway with doors extending into the road (saw > a collision between a building door opening just in time to get slammed shut > by a slow moving truck that happened to be going down the alley; person > opening the door was OK), no direct access, lack of dumpsters in the travel > lanes, through traffic... > _______________________________________________
Thanks for spelling that out for me. I was rebutting a comment about fences, trying to illustrate that there is more to something besides a dimension (height of a barrier, width of a road), and those other variables (and usage) might place it into another category. Javbw > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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