[Talk-us] Trunk versus motorway

[Adam Franco]

On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 1:36 AM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

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> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 12:30 AM Bryan Housel <bhousel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I do understand your point, but a dozen or so people on talk-us and the
>> six or so people on that changeset 64919426
>>
>
> Well, 1 person, an AA roads troll and like 5 sockpuppets.  There's also a
> number of people in this thread that do agree with me.
>
>
>> discussion all disagree with you.  Is there nothing that would make you
>> reconsider?
>>
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> Get the commonly used definition of a freeway changed to include
> intersections.  Good luck!
>

Since you are asking for more declaration of support/opposition, I'm a
relatively disinterested-in-motorways mapper that has been following along
with this thread. Paul, I think your read of a motorway definition is
overly rigid and I agree with Richie, Bryan, and the others that a motorway
classification may continue beyond the last interchange.

If one is traveling past the last interchange one may be traveling in a
"motorway zone" where high speeds, grade separation of crossing roads, dual
carriageway, etc all continue to exist. As Richie pointed out, there will
be some place where "caution freeway ends", "intersection ahead" or slowing
speed limit signage indicates a transition out of the motorway zone to
something else. That seems like a vastly more appropriate place to change
the tagging from motorway to trunk/primary. Choosing the point of the last
interchange doesn't make sense as there may be many miles on both sides of
the last interchange where the roadway is functionally the same -- where
standing and looking at the road it shows all of the characteristics of a
motorway. It is confusing to think that an at-grade intersection far over
the horizon would force a long final segment of road to change
classification.
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