[Talk-us] US highway classification

[Richard Welty]

On 5/27/11 9:47 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> On 5/27/2011 9:34 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
>> which is to day, i don't agree with many of your upgrades, but i've 
>> chosen
>> not to engage in an edit war in the map nor have i chosen to engage in
>> flame wars on this list about it, but there is no consensus on what
>> constitutes
>> a trunk in the US, and i believe your position is an outlier.
>
> I've tagged based on what practices I've seen applied to the map. For 
> example, when I joined, several two-lane highways across Nevada were 
> trunk. New Jersey has had a number of two-lane trunks for years.
if you peruse the wiki, and make a reasonably through search
for definitions of trunk in the US, you will find an extensive
complex of contradictions and inconsistencies. it is not actually
possible to use trunk as a classification in the US without
violating one or another constraint in the wiki as it currently
stands.

the fact that there are trunks of this that or the other type
scattered about the map of the US doesn't mean there is
consensus, it merely means that some mappers happen to
use a particular definition of trunk.

like i say, no consensus. my reading of the tenor of past discussions
of the list suggests that you are classifying highways as trunk that most
would probably classify as primary (you've also upgraded a bunch of
secondaries in upstate NY to primary where i have local knowledge of
the roads in question and don't really agree with the upgrade.)

richard