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

[Evin Fairchild]

I think the reason why things like this happen is because the highway
tagging scheme in OSM was modeled off of UK's road-classification system
and really isn't compatible with the road-classification system in the US.
When I was new here three years ago, I found it kind of odd that there
wasn't a way to distinguish state highways from other arterials. Perhaps
this user feels like all state highways should be tagged as primary to
distinguish them from other roads. That's kind of how I felt when I first
joined OSM, but I didn't go around unilaterally changing all of the state
highways in Washington to primary.

However, I cannot explain why that one road you mentioned is marked as
trunk.


On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:42 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
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