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<p>Thanks Brian and New England mappers for all the thinking that
went into this. At first I have to admit I felt a bit exasperated
when I saw this discussion come up yet again, as it has at least
annually since I moved to the U.S. in 2011 :). But you have
really gone the extra mile and did the work getting people on
board, and even creating a working map for people to look at.
Kudos! <br>
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<p>I also have to admit that I have not been able to completely keep
up with all the discussions in the different places (but good that
you link to where they happen on the wiki page). So I may have
missed something, but I am missing one element in the plan and
discussion here. What do you expect to happen next? Do you plan to
have a wiki vote like people do on tagging? When is the discussion
"concluded"? And after that, what do you want to happen with the
existing classifications? Will you be proposing some sort of
organized editing to update important roads throughout the
country? <br>
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<p>Another thing that I am missing is attention to the lower road
classes. I have an accepted lightning talk at State of the Map
this summer that is entitled "Bye Bye Unclassified"[0]. From that
title, you should be able to discern what that will be about :) I
am on the fence about including lower road classes in this
discussion, because the topic is already so broad and
controversial. On the other hand, now that we have everyone's eyes
and ears on this topic, it seems like a missed opportunity to not
also give some thought to those lower road classes. Right now,
there is just a short paragraph about "Secondary and lower". I
have some specific ideas about simplifying that aspect of road
classification, and I can extend that section, if you want.</p>
<p>Again, thanks for the work on this and looking forward to
continuing the discussion.</p>
<p>Martijn<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/17/2021 3:54 PM, Brian M.
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<div>Hi Folks,<br>
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I'd like to provide the community an update on the work that's
been happening to improve the current state of US highway
classifications. Following the recent talk-us threads, there
were extensive debates in Slack, especially in the
#local-us-northeast channel, about how to better apply the
highway classification values with international norms,
especially the trunk classification, which seems to be the most
challenging.<br>
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There was a strong consensus initially amongst New England
mappers that the highway classifications should be used in a way
that's consistent with the connectivity importance of various
roads. There was also a general agreement that documenting
state-specific highway classification criteria was important for
preventing edit wars as well as documenting edge or unusual
cases and the rationale behind them.<br>
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The outcome of those discussions was the following wiki page[1],
which offers general guidelines that can be applied in
state-specific ways to come up with criteria that mappers can
follow. As part of these discussions, local mappers have been
drafting state-specific pages that would implement these general
guidelines. State-specific criteria have been drafted so far
for: MA, MS, NH, RI, VT, TX, and WA.<br>
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In order to demonstrate what the new classification would look
like on the map, the New England mappers have put together a
temporary live demo[2] which shows what this new arrangement
would look like at the motorway and trunk level. This demo is
set up to show the proposed "new" highway classification
alignment in *four* New England states only: VT, NH, MA, and
RI. The rest of the country is shown with no change to highway
classification. In addition, this demo map is rigged to show
motorway/trunk at their normal zoom levels, but suppress
highway=secondary until zoomed in close, in order to
specifically examine the motorway/trunk network in better
detail.<br>
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Links:<br>
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[1] <a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Highway_classification"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Highway_classification</a><br>
[2] <a
href="http://74.97.52.189:6789/openstreetmap-carto/#7/43.250/-70.756"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://74.97.52.189:6789/openstreetmap-carto/#7/43.250/-70.756</a><br>
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I offer this update as an invitation to further collaboration on
how we might better map highway classifications in the US.<br>
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