[Talk-us] South Carolina State Highways - primary overload

[Paul Johnson]

Oregon's suffering from this as well, I've just got too much on my plate to
fix the Oregon situation.


On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:42 PM, James Mast <rickmastfan67 at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Is it just me, or are there way too many primary state highways when some
> of them should really be secondary instead?  The US Highways should
> normally be the "primary"/"trunk" highways and only a few select State
> Highways should be primary or trunk.  To be honest, it seems that 98% of
> all the State highways segments in SC are marked as primary right now.
>
> There is no way almost all of the State Highways in SC can be "primary".
> Just look at almost any other state.  None are overloaded with primaries.
> One of the major routes that sticks out to me is SC-64 near the Savannah
> River Site where it's marked as "trunk" going to the security gate [1].
> Now, if the Savannah River Site didn't exist and the highway was still open
> to the public past that point, I wouldn't agrue the point of it being trunk
> or primary.  But since that segment of state highway goes "nowhere" anymore
> after leaving US-278 going West, this would be a classic case of it having
> to be "secondary", or maybe even being "tertiary".
>
> So, does anybody else agree with me on this subject of "primary overload"
> in South Carolina?  If so, how do we go about fixing this with a reasonable
> approach?  Looking at some of the history of some of the ways, it seems
> that only one user was doing the "upgrade" from secondary to primary/trunk
> over the past 4+ months.  He also did some of this in Georgia, but not to
> the extent as in South Carolina.  Unfortunately, this user did it over 200+
> changesets, so, if reverting was the option, it would take forever I would
> think.
>
> -James
>
> [1] - http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/33.2388/-81.4205&layers=N
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-us mailing list
> Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20131209/83caff70/attachment-0001.html>