Everything Is A Highway

No matter whether it’s an overland road, a city street, a foot path or a cycleway, you’ll find it tagged with the highway key. Here are some examples of common tags:

• highway=residential - a residential road in a city
• highway=motorway - a fast restricted access road
• highway=footway - a foot path
• highway=cycleway - a cycleway

Roads often come with secondary tags, further specifying type or attribute of a road:

• oneway=yes says a road is a one way
• lanes=2 says how many lanes a road has
• name=Broadway designates a street name
• access=private|permissive describes the level of access on a road
• service=parking_aisle|driveway further specifies the type of highway=service