[Talk-us] Tagging a super-two highway (trunk or motorway?)

[Phil! Gold]

* Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> [2013-06-30 03:39 -0500]:
> So then we come back to the question of what exactly is trunk if it isn't
> used for these kinds of roads?

I've thought of them as something like "really major but not
Interstate-grade roads".  Primary roads are main roads, obviously, but
trunks have better throughput.  I mentioned MD 90 earlier; in the same
region is the easternmost part of US 50 which is a divided highway
with at-grade intersections and periodic (but not frequent) traffic
lights.  It's designed to get a lot of people to and from Ocean City,
MD in an efficient way.  I think it definitely fits as a trunk.

I think most of the things I would consider trunk are divided, but I
have seen undivided roads that others have tagged trunk and thought,
"Yeah, that makes sense there."

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