As I said previously, and I think it bears repeating, it's very easy to tell if a trunk is divided or undivided when you look at US or Canada at zoom 5 on the standard layer. Divided trunks show up as a thicker line than undivided trunks.
Also worth noting that Google maps doesn't display divided highways any different than undivided highways. They all are colored yellow. -Evin (compdude) On Oct 14, 2017 1:20 PM, "Bradley White" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Nathan Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > Road maps in the US have long differentiated between freeway/expressway > and > > has had both of those clearly different than US and state highways we'd > be > > tagging as primary. Map users expect to see expressways shown > differently. > > Could you show me an example of a US road atlas that explicitly > demarcates expressways? I have legitimately tried to find one but have > not been able to. Most US maps I've seen show freeways & toll roads > explicitly, but not expressways. Some maps might use a different > casing style to denote a divided highway, but the underlying color of > the line still represents the importance of the road. Which is the > point I'm trying to get at, that a highway being divided or not is > orthogonal to its importance. > > > It's less work on so many levels also. Creating a new tag requires > > significant work on the render side, but doesn't really gain us much over > > just using primary for roads that some think are important enough to be a > > trunk but are undivided. The wiki definition for primary is already "the > > most important non-motorway route between two cities" (essentially, and > > ignoring the variation in use between rural and urban areas) > > This is incorrect. 'Tag:highway=primary' gives "A highway linking > large towns". 'Tag:highway=trunk' gives "Important roads that are not > motorways", and explicitly lists in the US tagging application that "a > major intercity highway" is a correct use of the trunk tag in the US. > 'Highway:international_equivalence' as well as 'Key:highway' give the > same set of definitions. Where are you seeing that primary is "the > most important non-motorway route between two cities"? > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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