Tag:highway=motorway link
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| Description: The link roads (sliproads / ramps) leading to and from a motorway. |
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Description
The link roads (sliproads / ramps) leading to and from a motorway. Normally with the same motorway restrictions.
How to map
| Mapping a motorway link is quite easy. In the first example left you can see a dual carriage motorway where another way (green) branch off. This way has to be tagged with highway=motorway_link and oneway=yes.
The second example shows a more difficult junction. In this example you can leave the highway and enter it. For this create 2 different junctions (orange) and tag them separately with highway=motorway_link and oneway=yes. Be sure to check the direction of the arrows. The green way in this example can then be a simple junction withhighway=motorway_link without the oneway tag, as it is supposed to be used in both directions. To attach more information for the motorway you should add further keys.
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Special situations
In the case you do not have a normal motorway you should take a look on these sites:
- bridge=yes - If the motorway goes over a street or waterway.
- tunnel=yes - If the motorway goes below a street or waterway.
Examples
| | Huge Motorway junctions This is a example of a more complicated junction between 2 different motorway junctions. You can see this in Germany quite often this example shows the Autobahnkreuz A 1/A 27 osm link. If you take a closer look you can see the A 1 in blue lines going from left to right and the A 27 from north to south. In addition various junctions exist to get from one motorway to another. The last parts of this junctions are simply the links shown in yellow and green which are also get just the highway=motorway_link and oneway=yes tags. To enhance this junction some of the nodes could be tagged with highway=motorway_junction and the associated name. Note for Germany: The links between the main motorways should usually be tagged with the ref=* of the motorway they are going to--unless there are signs saying otherwise. |

