<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">My reading of the wiki indicates that for the United States a trunk is “a high speed Arterial Divided highway that is partially grade separated.” [1]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What is the problem with having the main road between regions/cities/towns being “primary”? Do you like the rendering of trunk better?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For myself if I planned a driving trip and was expecting a trunk road I’d sure be surprised to find areas that are undivided and apparently, from other responses in this thread, unpaved in sections.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Tod</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Road_classification#Trunk" class="">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Road_classification#Trunk</a></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 16, 2019, at 4:26 PM, Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com" class="">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Trunks are rarely expressways in remote parts of the world. In Britain, where this tag started, many highway=trunk roads are not expressways or motorroads.</div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Joseph</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 8:22 AM Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" class="">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 6:18 PM Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">I would use highway=trunk the whole way for consistency. In Canada the connecting highway is also highway=trunk. This makes sense because AK 2 is linking Fairbanks, the largest city in this part of Alaska, with All the cities in Canada and the lower 48 States.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That's kind of my thinking as to why it should be primary instead of secondary (as typical for the US for state highways). Almost all of it's not even paved, it'd be a hard stretch to call it an expressway (trunk). <br class=""></div></div></div>
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