<div dir="ltr">Also, it's not just a paper designation, it's an actual sign of importance of that road and that town of 2000. Specifically, it's the most important long-distance road connecting the most important towns in an area with few roads and few towns, and I chose it specifically to highlight the concept that highway classifications are deliberately set based on a road's role in the road network and it's relative importance compared to other roads in an area.<div><div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:40 PM Zeke Farwell <<a href="mailto:ezekielf@gmail.com">ezekielf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:07 PM brad <<a href="mailto:bradhaack@fastmail.com" target="_blank">bradhaack@fastmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><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">
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That road connects to a town of about 2000. That really seems like
a stretch for a trunk road. In my read of the wiki, it doesn't
pass. <br>
From the wiki: "Trunk- The most important roads in a country's
system that aren't motorways. (Need not necessarily be a divided
highway.)
"<br>
Even if it's the only one in the area, it isn't one of the most
important roads in the country. <br>
Secondary at best. wiki: "(Often link towns)"<br>
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Maybe it's a bad example<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is a good example. In the UK all numbered routes prefixed with A are either primary (if they have a white sign), or trunk (if they have a green sign). A87 has green signs which means the government has designated it as the next level of importance below motorway. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A87_road" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A87_road</a><br></div><div>All UK mappers have to do is look at the sign to know if the osm highway value should be trunk, primary, or secondary. Other than Interstates, our highway signs don't indicate importance like this, so we have to figure it out and decide for ourselves. <br></div></div></div>
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