Alaska is not attached to the rest of the USA, so consistency with the Yukon Territory and British Columbia is equally important.
In the western USA, highway=trunk is not limited to expressways like it is in Germany and France 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 California: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/40.681/-123.184 Expressways should be tagged with additional details like lanes=, surface, maxspeed=, expressway=yes, and motorroad=yes The latter two tags could be useful for rendering if they were applied consistently. - Joseph Eisenberg On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 8:29 AM Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 6:26 PM Joseph Eisenberg < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Trunks are rarely expressways in remote parts of the world. In Britain, >> where this tag started, many highway=trunk roads are not expressways or >> motorroads. >> > > Are we not trying to remain internally consistent with the rest of the US? >
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