On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 3:08 PM Peter Elderson <pelder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I still don't understand why you tag "US" while it's obviously a bunch of > roads in the US. or Interstate when the road clearly crosses state lines. I > think that"s more redundant than tagging "we classify this route as a > regional route", even though it might cross two national borders in a few > places and half the roads are outside our borders, and we don't know the > current operator or provider. > Because they are two separate networks with roughly the same geographical scope. How would you distinguish Interstate 30 from US Route 30, which are hundreds of miles away from each other? Some Interstate highways do not cross state lines themselves, but the idea behind the name is that the network as a whole does. Regardless, that's just the name for our national freeway network. -Clay
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