Okay, this is going to be a long message, but I’d strongly suggest you read ALL
of it before responding.
I’d first like to address the assumption that some people seem to have that
those who support using trunk on roads other than divided highways are “tagging
for the renderer” because we
> Long term, it would be nice to separate these notions and have some
> highway:importance key for that, and leave the road type notion that
> separates primary/trunk/motorway alone (or move it to some other tag,
> and get rid of highway=trunk and highway=motorway).
Ideally, this is what
Village Earth's Native Land Advocacy Project[1], David Bartecchi[2], Paul
Johnson[3], and I[4] are considering an organized effort to improve the
boundaries of Native American Reservations in the US. We have studied the
import guidelines on the wiki and will follow those, however, we first
wanted
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 3:05 PM Greg Troxel wrote:
> Tod Fitch writes:
>
> > My reading of the wiki indicates that for the United States a trunk is
> “a high speed Arterial Divided highway that is partially grade separated.”
> [1]
> >
> > What is the problem with having the main road between
>
Paul Johnson writes:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 7:24 AM Mike N wrote:
>
>>
>>I think many of the trunk VS motorway VS primary conflicts come from
>> 2 points of view: on the one hand, people like to zoom out and see a
>> coherent network of interconnected roads.
>
> In which case, rendering
Bradley White writes:
> The lack of consistent highway tagging in the US is one of the biggest
> sources of frustration with this project as a whole to me. IMO, the US
> community needs to make a decision to *either*:
>
> 1. Use 'trunk' to mean "major cross-country highway" and orthogonalize
>
Tod Fitch writes:
> My reading of the wiki indicates that for the United States a trunk is “a
> high speed Arterial Divided highway that is partially grade separated.” [1]
>
> What is the problem with having the main road between regions/cities/towns
> being “primary”? Do you like the
I'm not expressing strong opposition because consistency with the
adjacent highways is important, and also because I don't live up there,
but the wiki makes sense, trunk is a divided highway. Both this:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Road_classification#Trunk
and the US
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 4:53 PM wrote:
> On the West Coast, several important State highways are tagged as trunks
> even though they are not full expressways, because they are the main road
> for a large region. For example, see US 199, US 101, CA 99 and CA 299 on
> this map of far Northern
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 7:24 AM Mike N wrote:
>
>I think many of the trunk VS motorway VS primary conflicts come from
> 2 points of view: on the one hand, people like to zoom out and see a
> coherent network of interconnected roads.
In which case, rendering based on network on the route
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 7:17 PM Eric H. Christensen wrote:
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> On Monday, December 16, 2019 7:35 PM, Tod Fitch
> wrote:
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> > My reading of the wiki indicates that for the United States a trunk is
> “a high
I think many of the trunk VS motorway VS primary conflicts come from
2 points of view: on the one hand, people like to zoom out and see a
coherent network of interconnected roads. On the other side, there is
the group that prefers the road be classed according to its regional
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 10:29 PM Michael Patrick
wrote:
> > secondary in most cases for the state
>> highways and primary for the US ones.
>>
>
> At least for the U.S., the Interstate vs. State Route distinction has
> more to do with funding than carrying capacity and physical attributes. We
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