[Talk-us-massachusetts] US6 on the Cape and road type

[Lars Ahlzen]

On 8/27/2017 10:22 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> Sounds like we agree about this (between my notes section) being a
> difficult edge case, and the issue is about degree of limited access and
> frequency of at-grade intersections.

Yes.

>
>> I wish we would have a set of objective, unambiguous criteria for
>> determining road classifications in the US.
> For trunk, I think it needs to be divided, with minor amounts of stuff
> on the side (a driveway or business every quarter mile is ok, more not),
> reasonably high speed (45 mph min, 50 mph preferred), and at-grade
> intersections no more often than once per mile.  But while that seems
> consistent with the rough consensus, that's my notion in detail.

I also feel the consensus is something like that. OTOH, the wiki is not 
clear and there are certainly counterexamples on the map. I'm not sure 
the situation will really improve unless the US OSM community agrees on 
and documents those criteria. One can always dream... :)

- Lars