Legend or explanation of different line types and color

General talk
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Hi!

www.Motoplaner.de an excellent webbased application available for planning motorcycle tours. You can switch the card view from GoogleMaps to OpenStreetMaps.

Now I hope that I’m able to see on OpenStreetMap if it’s allowed to drive on small streets. But I don’t find any legend of OpenStreetMap.

Example (click here for original map on Motoplaner, switch view to openstreetmap)

Is it possible on the small dotted orange lines to drive with a motorcycle?
Or on the with small lines dotted orange line?

Does anybody have a legend with the meaning of the different line types?

Thanks und kiss :slight_smile:

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Hi, welcome to OSM :slight_smile:

http://www.openstreetmap.org click on the sidebar ‘Legend’

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Methinks that should be the sidebar “Map key”

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Do we already have an entry in our wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Anwender or http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap that www.motoplaner.de also displays OSM tiles?

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Hi!
Thanks for your answer. When I open www.openstreetmap.org, I see a german version of the page. And the german legend contains only 5 entries:
Autobahn
Schnellstraße
Bundesstraße
Landesgrenzen, sonstige Grenzen
See und Speichersee

But there is no explanation for the dotted lines and many more.

Does the english legend contain more entries? Can anybody make a screenshot or can give me a hint how to change the language?

Regards
Jens

EDIT

Sorry! I’m stupid! When I zoom into the card, the legend expands. It’s a very very intelligent legend which shows only these lines which are visiable on the map :wink: Great!
Got it! Thanks a lot!

EDIT2: No, it’s not really intelligent - the legend depends only on the zoom level and not of the content of the maps.