<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 5:13 AM Mike N <<a href="mailto:niceman@att.net">niceman@att.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 12/17/2019 10:19 PM, Evin Fairchild wrote:<br>
> some US routes are more important than others and lumping them all as <br>
> primary doesn???t make any sense;<br>
<br>
The arguments here about relative importance of parallel routes makes <br>
sense.<br>
<br>
Some massive changes such as in <br>
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78620805" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78620805</a> are raising roads which <br>
have no other major choices, but are apparently just because they are <br>
the most important.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This smashing everything to the highest possible value I would generally consider to be an undiscussed and problematic mechanical edit. Going with the lowest level that fits feels a bit more correct (think "minimum effective dose" from medicine, for example), does give routers more information where there's lots of routes available, and humans more of an idea what kind of road they're going to encounter at a glance.<br></div></div></div>