Re: [Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 141, Issue 22

2019-08-29 Thread Anthony Costanzo
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 07:09:25 -0500 > From: Paul Johnson > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:40 AM Joseph Eisenberg > wrote: > > > That's probably not relevant for anywhere in the USA (even in Alaska > > the main highways between cities are paved... right?) but it's a > > reminder that we can certa

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Anonymous comments on notes now disabled

2019-08-29 Thread stevea
Such portals are ours (OSM's) to manage as we see fit. "After two years of discussions" sounds like consensus. Defining something as "rarely useful" (then agreeing upon that) seems a helpful approach. Looks like a good call, Frederik. SteveA ___ Ta

Re: [Talk-us] Historic 66 as highway=trunk in OK

2019-08-29 Thread Bradley White
> Also language introduced by NE2 when he changed the wiki to justify his own > national mass edit on the US highways. If all this language was added unilaterally by NE2, can we find the specific wiki edits that they made and roll them back? I'm on the same page with Steve that describing how tag

Re: [Talk-us] Historic 66 as highway=trunk in OK

2019-08-29 Thread Kevin Broderick
Vermont has at least two state highways that are partially or entirely gravel, too. On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 10:20 AM Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > * Paul Johnson [190829 14:09]: > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:40 AM Joseph Eisenberg < > joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> That's probably not

Re: [Talk-us] Historic 66 as highway=trunk in OK

2019-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
* Paul Johnson [190829 14:09]: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:40 AM Joseph Eisenberg > wrote: >> That's probably not relevant for anywhere in the USA (even in Alaska >> the main highways between cities are paved... right?) but it's a >> reminder that we can certainly choose to do things in a way th

Re: [Talk-us] Historic 66 as highway=trunk in OK

2019-08-29 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 8:11 AM Paul Johnson wrote: > The larger cities in southern Alaska. Most are gravel, including a paper > interstate. I think Alaska's the last state to still have gravel state > highways. Not just southern Alaska. It's kind of hard to pave over permafrost, so there's a

Re: [Talk-us] Historic 66 as highway=trunk in OK

2019-08-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:40 AM Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > That's probably not relevant for anywhere in the USA (even in Alaska > the main highways between cities are paved... right?) but it's a > reminder that we can certainly choose to do things in a way that makes > sense for mapping the USA; w

Re: [Talk-us] Historic 66 as highway=trunk in OK

2019-08-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:41 PM Bradley White wrote: > > For example, US Hwy 101 is the main route connecting the cities (e.g. > > Eureka) and towns along the coast of northern California. Right now > > only some segments are tagged as highway=trunk. I would like to > > upgrade all of it to high

Re: [Talk-us] Historic 66 as highway=trunk in OK

2019-08-29 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
"As it stands, I will continue to use 'trunk' on any section of highway that is somewhere between a freeway and a conventional 2-lane highway per US consensus. Hopefully one of these days consensus will shift." It sounds like there isn't a consensus, per comments on Hwy 101: "I did this a year or