A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, bicycle, motor vehicle or foot - Wikipedia
Roads are one of the most useful features of a map, as they help us find the best travel path between any two points based on our preferences.
Find the shortest driving route Khanpur to Rajanpur. Assume your car cannot swim.
Roads are traditionally represented as solid dark lines. This makes it easy to visually follow the path between two points. Thicker and darker lines indicate a road of higher importance that can carry traffic at a higher speed, just like the veins in our body.
Roads?
Using color shades and transparency further helps distinguish between many types of roads
Highways
highway=motorwayfast, restricted access roadhighway=trunkmost important in standard road networkhighway=primaryhighway=secondary
Main Roads
highway=tertiaryhighway=unclassifiedleast important in standard road network
Streets
highway=residentialsmaller road for access mostly to residential propertieshighway=living_streethighway=servicesmaller road for access, often but not exclusively to non-residential properties
Tracks
highway=trackhighway=path
- Highway class: Expressway, Highway, Street
- Name
- Reference ID: A13, NH54
- Access
- Maximum Speed
- Surface: asphalt, concrete,
- Smoothness: excellent, good, bad
- Track type: grade1, grade2
- Lanes
- Width
