[Talk-us] US highway classification

[Anthony]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Nathan Mills <nathan at nwacg.net> wrote:
>> Primary means (at least according to most of the wiki pages)
>> the primary non-motorway route between two cities.
>
> Any wiki pages that say that are clearly wrong.  Trunk is the primary
> non-motorway route between two cities.  Yes, it's dumb terminology,
> but it's too late to fix that.

You agree that if a router has two possible roads to take between two
cities, and one is a trunk, and one is a primary, and all other things
are equal, that the router should choose the trunk, right?  Doesn't
that make trunk, by definition, the primary non-motorway route between
two cities?