<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Greg Troxel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gdt@ir.bbn.com" target="_blank">gdt@ir.bbn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
Bradley White <<a href="mailto:theangrytomato@gmail.com">theangrytomato@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> In urban areas, I would consider secondary to usually mean 4 lanes, 35<br>
> mph(ish), maybe divided maybe not, with not much in the way of access<br>
> control. Primaries are faster, more controlled and usually wider - more<br>
> important roads in the area than secondary. Under the scheme that this<br>
> contributor recently tagged the city with, there is no distinction between<br>
> these roads.<br>
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</span>This is messy. As I have read the norms, primary is for US highwways,<br>
and secondary for state highways. Then, classifications are adjusted<br>
based on importance, so that a state highway that is as important as a<br>
US highway (e.g MA 2 in massachusetts, which is as big a deal as US 20,<br>
if not more so, is tagged as primary).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>True, but on the other hand, an eight lane city boulevard's probably going to be considered a more major route than a two lane county road intersecting it (or even parallel a few blocks over), even though the network hierarchy would consider the county road more major.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Just because a road has 4 lanes doesn't make it like a US highway.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right, that's what the network tag on the route relation that the way should already be a part of means. (Have I mentioned yet, it's time to kill ref=* on ways and go exclusively to relations for this information?)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The root of the problem is that the view of what's important in the city<br>
is different than outside, and these have to sort of meet up. Outside<br>
of cities, important roads take you from one place to another place, not<br>
across town.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In more rural areas, these do more or less line up. Major cities tend to be their own beast when it comes to this sort of thing. </div></div></div></div>