Ignoring limited-access highways and highway ramps

I’ve been pressing the ignore button on highways and highway ramps in my city.

It seems like this should be done automatically and in bulk by excluding the OSM tags highway=motorway and highway=motorway_link at import time.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=motorway
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=motorway_link

In my experience, OSM tagging wasn’t reliable enough to apply to my imports… maybe it deserves a second look, though.

In general, I would agree with you. However, tags such as highway that are used for rendering map features tend to be pretty reliable.

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