On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 7:45 PM Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 6:35 PM Anthony Costanzo <acjame...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> All of AK 2 between Fairbanks and the Canadian border is paved. I can >> vouch for this personally. > > OK, so that's kinda putting more weight on the "primary" idea. Is most of it > a single carriageway freeway or a dual carriageway expressway? It's > been a long time since I've been there but i can't imagine it being more than > your typical middle-of-nowhere two-lane uncontrolled single > carriageway today. If that's the case, I feel like primary is the highest it > should be, and we should be considering more whether or not such a road > rises to primary instead of secondary (the lowest it should be, given it's > part of the primary state highway network in Alaska).
Most of it is uncontrolled two-lane single carriageway. I don't have a strong opinion on whether the road is tagged as trunk or primary based on its own merits, however I do think the tags for the single-carriageway parts of AK 2 and YT 1 (and BC 97 for that matter) should match, whichever it is. These roads are functionally equivalent and physically similar. Given how these and other major single-carriageway roads in northern and western Canada are tagged as Trunk, tagging AK 2 as such would seem to be the option that defers to regional precedent. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
