Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Kevin Kenny writes: > > > Perhaps we could reach consensus more easily if we were > > to first try to agree that the goal is to tag both physical character > > and regional importance, and

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Kevin Kenny writes: > Perhaps we could reach consensus more easily if we were > to first try to agree that the goal is to tag both physical character > and regional importance, and recognize that the two serve > different needs, and are (in the US) often grossly

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-10-08 Thread Tod Fitch
FYI, I reviewed the ways with redacted names in California (all in San Diego County) and where possible set the names per Tiger 2017 data. In most cases the names set by chdr matched the Tiger names but there were some exceptions. There are a roads that did not have names showing in the Tiger

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-08 Thread Nathan Mills
On October 8, 2017 3:46:07 PM EDT, Paul Johnson wrote: > >County and rural roads, particularly of the 3- and 4-digit National >Forest >routes and...really pick an unpaved section line almost anywhere in an >area >bounded by the Rocky Mountain frontier, the Appalachian

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-08 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote: > I m following this conversation in hopes that if it ever gets resolved > someone will update the Wiki. I have my fears that, along with many other > contentious issues, it may never be resolved to the satisfaction of

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: > Riverside in Tulsa is fairly clearly a primary for most of its length. It > isn't part of a larger trunk route nor is it an expressway. > Fair enough. It does retain a lot of it's features from when it was the Riverside

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-08 Thread Nathan Mills
Riverside in Tulsa is fairly clearly a primary for most of its length. It isn't part of a larger trunk route nor is it an expressway. Personally, I think of trunk as more like motorway than like the other highway values. Motorway is clearly used only for controlled access freeways (excepting

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 10/05/2017 05:30 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Question for you all: > > > > What make Michigan state routes 5 and 10[1] trunks rather than > primaries? > > > > To my mind these are highway=primary mainly because

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
A little context, since I don't know how routine it is for folks to be aware of the difference between an expressway (which is what I would call a trunk in OSM terms) and a freeway (OSM's motorway). I use the same criteria as AASHTO, where a freeway is always dual carriageway, fully controlled

Re: [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

2017-10-08 Thread Nick Hocking
Can someone put up an OSM task so that we can replace these names , from Tiger 2017? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-08 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 10/05/2017 05:30 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Question for you all: > > What make Michigan state routes 5 and 10[1] trunks rather than primaries?  > > To my mind these are highway=primary mainly because of at-grade > intersections.. I am still confused about what makes a trunk road in the >

Re: [Talk-us] Trunk

2017-10-08 Thread Dave Swarthout
>I'd hazard to guess Alaska has considerably more "trunk" than "motorway" miles, particularly outside of metro Anchorage. Agreed. Here's a query for the George Parks Highway that runs between Fairbanks and Anchorage: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/scw no relations, only ways are involved No rush