[Talk-us] US highway classification

[Nathan Mills]

 On Sun, 29 May 2011 01:04:24 -0400, Anthony wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Nathan Mills <nathan at nwacg.net> 
> wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 May 2011 00:13:33 -0400, Anthony wrote:
>>
>>> convincing people that their
>>> area of the country isn't allowed to have any trunks.
>>
>> Also, why is this any worse than not having a motorway?
>
> Why is what worse than not having a motorway?

 Not having any trunks. Why is that worse than not having any motorways?

>> I don't think the
>> folks in Newton County Arkansas care a whit whether the main road 
>> through
>> their very rural county is trunk or primary or secondary or even 
>> tertiary.
>
> They do if they're looking at a map, and none of the roads are drawn,
> because tertiaries aren't drawn at that zoom level.

 I don't think it's a problem if rural areas have a low density of roads 
 drawn at low zoom. That's how most every map made is drawn. (Yes, 
 tertiary may have been taking it too far, but for reasons of rendering, 
 not the importance of the road)