At 2010-02-26 12:50, Richard Welty wrote: >On 2/26/10 3:14 PM, Nakor Osm wrote: > > What is the distinction made between trunk and motorways for tagging > > in the US. As an example should this portion of US41 ( > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.8967&lon=-87.6177&zoom=14 > > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.8967&lon=-87.6177&zoom=14> ) be > > a motorway or a trunk? >for all practical purposes, a trunk is a motorway-wannabe, but with >grade level crossings of >some sort, either with stop signs for the lesser roads, or traffic >lights. you generally won't >see driveways or businesses directly on trunks, there will often be >frontage roads for that.
Agreed. IMO, what downgrades a motorway to a trunk is the presence of anything that stops traffic on the main roadway for intersecting traffic (signals, stop signs, or yield signs). Really, anything more than just a very occasional road intersection that does not occur via ramps, or driveway, should be grounds to call it a trunk (or even lower). In the example, I'd call US41 trunk from Monroe St down to Waldron Dr, and motorway above and below that (at least for the area I looked at), simply based on the appearance of ramp-style intersections vs. traffic-signal-controlled perpendicular intersections. I'm guessing that speed limits would give further justification. -- Alan Mintz <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
