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User keeps changing trunk to motorway

I reported this problem to the DWG but no reaction from them. There’s a big road in Casablanca, Morocco which is commonly called “Urban motorway” (Autoroute urbaine). Due to this, there is a misconception that this road is a motorway… but its specifications are of a trunk, and this has been the case for a long time on OSM. Morocco’s motorways are well defined and have clear references (A1, A2, A3, etc.). Every now and then, a user would change the whole road to highway=motorway. I would simply…

Let's talk about highway classification in OSM

Hi all, The values of highway=* have always been a big debate subject all around the world. Every country has its own classification or interpretation and oftentimes there are edit wars or endless discussions about what to base the value of highway=* on. To me, it seems like it’s all been caused by the ambiguity of the tags’ names, e.g. I feel like almost only English-speakers could understand what ‘trunk’ means in the context of roads and don’t even get me started on highway=unclassified. It…