Phil! Gold <phi...@pobox.com> writes: > * Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> [2012-08-14 23:26 -0500]: >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.117&lon=-94.8924&zoom=14&layers=M >> >> I know there is some disagreement about road classification, >> especially when it comes to trunk but I'm pretty sure most people >> would agree that this is incorrect. Thoughts? > > I agree with your assessment. > > In my opinion, road classifications are most useful when applied over > significant stretches of road. I don't think a rural freeway that has > someone's driveway on it needs to be dropped from motorway to trunk around > that driveway, and I don't think a divided expressway with mostly at-grade > intersections but a few interchanges should be upgraded from trunk to > motorway around the interchanges.
I agree. I think that the distance of road over which 'is it a motorway' should be asked is somewhere between 2 and 5 miles; certainly between 1 and 20. An example is route 2 in massachusetts, which has classification changes, but the trunk/motorway/primary stretches are pretty long.
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