But "freeway" is de facto equivalent of motorway, right?

Regards,
Illia.

Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonew...@gmail.com>:

>
> 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 no such distinction in the US. I've learned on this project
> to be quite careful about projecting what we think to be a normal structure
> onto other locations in the world.  In the US it's a motorway if it's
> physically constructed like one, and there's many edge cases that we
> scratch our heads on.
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