On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 4:53 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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: FWIW - I am the one who bumped each of these roads listed up to trunk a year or two ago, and I have recently bumped them back down to primary (what they were for years before IIRC) to remain consistent with guidelines posted here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging and here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Road_classification The lack of consistent highway tagging in the US is one of the biggest sources of frustration with this project as a whole to me. IMO, the US community needs to make a decision to *either*: 1. Use 'trunk' to mean "major cross-country highway" and orthogonalize expressway constructions with its own 'expressway=*' tag, bump 'primary' to "minor cross-country highway/major regional highway", 'secondary' to "minor regional highway/major local road", etc... Or: 2. Use 'trunk' to mean strictly "partially grade-separated limited access divided highway" (with explicit instruction to not tag singular or isolated interchanges as 'motorway') The mixture of the two schemes that leans towards one or the other depending on what part of the country you're in is inconsistent and confusing to me, and judging by how many times we've gone in circles about this on us-talk, others as well. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
