[Talk-us] US highway classification

[Toby Murray]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Nathan Mills <nathan at nwacg.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 May 2011 12:09:30 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking the differences between motorways and trunks are minor.
>> Trunks may have intersections, motorways don't.
>
> That's the simple way to state my opinion. It also seemed to be the thrust
> of most of the discussion on the talk page of the wiki page referenced
> previously as closest to consensus (the page itself just references the
> existence of the two camps and leaves it at that).
>
> In short, my position is simply that an end user expects a trunk road to be
> identifiably different than primary or secondary. That's how it's done on
> other maps, so I don't see why that's such a bad thing here.

I agree with this as well. And I too thought this was a pretty widely
accepted convention.

Toby