On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 7:17 PM Eric H. Christensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Monday, December 16, 2019 7:35 PM, Tod Fitch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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. > > > > [1] > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Road_classification#Trunk > > I haven't seen that wiki page before. Looking at the trunk page[0], the > highway need not be divided and the U.S.-specific portion says "Surface > expressway: A relatively high-speed divided road (at least 40 MPH with a > barrier or median separating each direction of traffic), with a limited > amount of intersections and driveways; or a major intercity highway. This > includes many U.S. Highways (that do not parallel an Interstate) and some > state highways.". To me that meets the requirement for AK-2. > For a single carriageway road? Seems like it's going the long way around describing the southern loop of the Duncan Bypass <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/34.4971/-97.9862> or the entire length of the Chicasaw Turnpike <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/34.5619/-96.9284>.
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