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The changes I’m suggesting are really big and would mean that a lot of road definitions have to be changed.
So I was checking around for more information. And in the bottom of this post you can see some interesting postings regarding the road definitions in Israel.
Please see below images from Israeli Highway signs showing the difference of the roads in the real life that doesn’t exist in Openstreetmap.
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Here are some road definitions from Posting I grabbed from here : http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=505605&page=2
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Motorways have blue signs, and most other intercity highways have green ones. The latter can be very close to full motorway standard, like the Geha highway (part of Road 4), which is a very large 6-lane all-interchange urban highway, but which is not classified as a motorway. The reason for this, I think, is that there are two petrol stations by the road, which are too close for a motorway. The section of Road 1 which is nearest Jerusalem is not a motorway. It does not have any traffic lights, but I think some of the curves are too tight for full motorway standard.
The big difference between Israel and, say, the UK, is that the color of turn-off signs is that of the destination road and not that of the road they are on. In other words, a motorway sign directing you to a non-motorway highway would be green, not blue. The only blue signs on the motorways are either those showing distances, introducing interchanges, or directing to other motorways.
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True freeways in Israel are recognized by the European blue “motorway” sign, and they actually use BLUE signs, as you might have spotted in some of the pictures. However, many expressways in Israel are not classified legally as freeways (often they are built to motorway standards, but they may contain several at-grade intersections, that’s usually the main reason), and they use green signs. As a result, the majority of roads in Israel use green signs and are not officially classified as motorways.
Also, on true motorways, usually signs describing destinations off the freeway are in green signs, because they refer to exits to non-motorway roads, whereas right beside them, the sign that tells about destinations if you continue driving on the motorway (with arrows pointing directly down), would be blue in this case.
Lastly, the official speed limit on a “blue” motorway is 110km/h by default, even though to this day in most places there is a 100km/h limit enforced by signs, except for highway 6. On the other hand, most “green” dual carriageways have a limit of 90km/h.