On 05/28/2011 06:13 PM, Nathan Mills wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2011 20:54:07 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > >>> You described your criteria, but did not explain how trunk is more >>> appropriate than primary for a two lane rural highway between two >>> small-to-tiny cities. If you use trunk for that, there is no way to >>> describe (in a way that shows up on the tiles) a road which is not a >>> motorway but is better than the typical rural highway. >> >> There are many types of roads that it's not possible to describe. How >> do you tag an unpaved classified road so the map shows that it's >> unpaved (this is very common in the third world, but also occurs in >> extremely rural areas of the US)? You don't. > > Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, my friend. It's > nonsensical to say that just because there are other roads that can't be > adequately described (few and far between in my experience, but perhaps > more common out west than I'm aware) we should waste trunk on US > highways that could be adequately described with primary.
Given who you're caught in a flamewar with, is there any better response other than, "Maybe you should try Google Mapmaker instead?"
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