[Talk-us] US highway classification

[Paul Johnson]

On 05/28/2011 06:13 PM, Nathan Mills wrote:
> On Sat, 28 May 2011 20:54:07 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> 
>>> You described your criteria, but did not explain how trunk is more
>>> appropriate than primary for a two lane rural highway between two
>>> small-to-tiny cities. If you use trunk for that, there is no way to
>>> describe (in a way that shows up on the tiles) a road which is not a
>>> motorway but is better than the typical rural highway.
>>
>> There are many types of roads that it's not possible to describe. How
>> do you tag an unpaved classified road so the map shows that it's
>> unpaved (this is very common in the third world, but also occurs in
>> extremely rural areas of the US)? You don't.
> 
> Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, my friend. It's
> nonsensical to say that just because there are other roads that can't be
> adequately described (few and far between in my experience, but perhaps
> more common out west than I'm aware) we should waste trunk on US
> highways that could be adequately described with primary.

Given who you're caught in a flamewar with, is there any better response
other than, "Maybe you should try Google Mapmaker instead?"


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