On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 5:22 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While =primary refers to "A major highway linking large towns, in > developed countries normally with 2 lanes. In areas with worse > infrastructure road quality may be far worse" > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dprimary > Well, that more or less does it, doesn't it? Homer, Alaska is almost exactly a statistically average American city in terms of size, anything larger than that would be a moderately large city with Juneau, Fairbanks qualifying as moderately major and Anchorage as quite large. Keep in mind, the average US city is only about 5000 people. > If the only way of getting from A to B is along a particular road, it's >> very important. >> > > In some of the cases that I'm thinking of, these are the only roads, so > yes, very important. > In which case secondary is going to show up adequately while not overstating its stature as an even more major road than it is. > Do we need to broaden our classes of construction/legality somewhat to >> encompass >> standards in countries outside the UK? Probably. Are the values for the >> highway key >> UK-centric and somewhat misleading? Sure. >> > > Thank you! > > >> Should we map dirt tracks between Hell's Bumhole and Arse-end Of Nowhere >> as motorways because they're the only >> way of getting from one place to the other? No, no, a thousand times no. >> > > & yes, yes, a thousand times yes, :-) I agree that they shouldn't be > =motorways, BUT, they should be either =trunk or =primary, because, in this > area, they are the main road, & so are of vital importance > But, it's largely been established in the US that highway=trunk is a special case to mean limited access expressway or controlled access single carriageway, and primary being either an extremely major locally significant road or a longer road of national importance. AK2 might fit primary for most of its length, and definitely fits trunk for it's Fairbanks dual-carriageway segment, but I think a stronger case is made with trunk for the Fairbanks dual carriageway and secondary for the rest.
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