I would like to have community's point of view on this topic.
Recently I have seen most primary roads in my area being recoded as trunk by at least two users. They both refer to a governmental document (a) to justify their edits but I disagree with their interpretation. I have asked them to discuss their interpretation with the OSM community but they did not; so let's do it I thought there was an agreement on highway tagging scheme in which provincial primary highway that does not meet freeway standards should be identified as primary road, as described in Highway:International equivalence (b). For instance provincial highways 2-14 in Ontario, 100-series highways in Quebec, Highway 95 in BC were initially tagged as primary road. Since then, the document (a) is used by some contributors to recode primary roads to trunk because it is cited in the Canadian tagging guideline (c). IMHO, the problem is that this document (a) defines 3 Route Categories (Core, Feeder, Northern and Remote) that does not fit with OSM highway definitions. I prefer looking at OSM highway as "infrastructure categories" -my understanding of OSM definitions- rather than as "strategic categories" as described in (a) and partially promoted in (c). However, both are of interest as long they are applied consistently (d). I would like to get a consensus from the Canadian community on trunk/primary roads tagging scheme and eventually clarify available documentation (b, c) accordingly. I might also add Tristan Anderson definitions on forestry roads (talk-ca 15-07-15). Comments are obviously welcome J Daniel a) http://www.comt.ca/english/NHS-report-english.pdf b) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway:International_equivalence c) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines d) The Canadian tagging guideline defines trunk as a roadway that has limited access; while OSM Features (wiki) defines trunk as "high performance roads that don't meet the requirement for motorway" which means there is no/little access limitations!
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