On 29.08.19 05:05, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > I don't have any local knowledge about old route 66 in OK, but I'd > like to address the use of highway=trunk in general. > > I'm in favor of using a secondary tags like motorroad=yes and > expressway=yes, along with other details like lanes=, surface=, > maxspeed=, etc, to specify expressways, rather than using > highway=trunk for this. > > Like the distinctions between primary/secondary/tertiary, trunk was > originally intended to describe the role of a road in the network. > While most trunk highways are divided and have more than 1 lane in > each direction in densely-populated areas, it's quite normal for to > have narrower roads as the main route between 2 cities, in > sparsely-populated parts of the country. Or see "Route 1" in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Is:Map_Features#Ways.
"Route 1 ... is tagged as highway=trunk due to its significance as a trunk road covering the entire country." Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_1_(Iceland) : "Many smaller bridges are single lane, especially in eastern Iceland, and are constructed of wood or steel. The road is paved with asphalt for almost all of its length, but there is still a short stretch in eastern Iceland with unpaved gravel surface." ... -- Rihards _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
