My reading of the wiki indicates that for the United States a trunk is “a high speed Arterial Divided highway that is partially grade separated.” [1]
What is the problem with having the main road between regions/cities/towns being “primary”? Do you like the rendering of trunk better? For myself if I planned a driving trip and was expecting a trunk road I’d sure be surprised to find areas that are undivided and apparently, from other responses in this thread, unpaved in sections. —Tod [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Road_classification#Trunk > On Dec 16, 2019, at 4:26 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. > > Joseph > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 8:22 AM Paul Johnson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 6:18 PM Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I would use highway=trunk the whole way for consistency. In Canada the > connecting highway is also highway=trunk. This makes sense because AK 2 is > linking Fairbanks, the largest city in this part of Alaska, with All the > cities in Canada and the lower 48 States. > > That's kind of my thinking as to why it should be primary instead of > secondary (as typical for the US for state highways). Almost all of it's not > even paved, it'd be a hard stretch to call it an expressway (trunk). > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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