[Talk-us] proposed first principles for United States road tagging

[Anthony]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:40:47 -0500, Anthony wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Anthony
> > <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> >
> >> The important, worldwide criteria that I'd expect is this: *Motorways
> >> are exclusive to motor vehicle traffic. *trunks are the most important
> >> roads in a geographic area which aren't motorways.
> >>
> >>
> > As a corollary to this, Alaska should have several motorway and/or trunk
> > roads, regardless of whether or not they are interstates, fake
> > interstates, paved, unpaved, divided, undivided, etc.
>
> That would violate the basic definition of the word "motorway" as it is
> commonly understood in the English language.
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/motorway
>

How so?  I said "motorway and/or trunk roads".  Any roads which don't
qualify as motorways would be trunks.
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