On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > On 5/28/2011 9:12 AM, Anthony wrote: >> >> Trunk has no meaning beyond "color the road the same color as other >> things that are tagged trunk". > > Even color is not defined - some trunks can be toll / not toll. > > However, trunk *could* serve as a router hint that the road is a better > selection than primary / secondary.
In my experience the difference between primary and trunk is generally very minor, to the point where I'm not sure there'd be any advantage at all in a router using it as a hint. But maybe that's just because the places where I use OSM are mapped wrong. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
