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 Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > "Brian M. Sperlongano" <zelonew...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, 8:08 AM Illia Marchenko < > illiamarchenk...@gmail.com> > > 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 situation is far more complicated. > > Agreed. When someone says that something is a "freeway", there is no > basis to be sure what kind of physical road it is. >
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