Thank you for the correction. So highway=trunk in German is similar to expressway=yes in the USA?
Joseph On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 6:49 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 21. Dec 2019, at 01:10, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, the road classification system in parts of Continental > > Europe was different, so mappers in some major countries, including > > Germany and France, chose to use highway=trunk as synonym for > > "motorroad" (somewhat similar to a U.S.A. "expressway"), with other > > major roads tagged as highway=primary. > > > actually not, the motorroad tag was introduced by the Germans (AFAIK) to > express a typical access situation on many trunks but also some primaries > (motorway like access), so that trunk (motorway like physical construction) > and access could be tagged orthogonally. There are also some trunks that > permit slower traffic in Germany. > > Cheers Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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