[Talk-us] Alaska Highway AK-2 tagging

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 5:35 PM Eric H. Christensen via Talk-us <
talk-us at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> I've noticed that there is some mixed tagging of the Alaska Highway AK-2
> from the Canadian border through Delta Junction to where it becomes a
> divided highway just south and east of Fairbanks at Eielson Air Force
> Base.  Some of the non-divided portions are tagged as trunk while the other
> (majority) is tagged as primary.  The definitions of these two tags are
> similar enough in the U.S. to almost be interchangeable.  Being that this
> highway links many villages with Canada and the City of Fairbanks and the
> speed limit is 65 MPH, I would lean towards this highway being tagged as
> trunk.  By the same definition, I'd probably argue the same for the
> Richardson Highway AK-4.
>

I'd personally go for primary in the segments that don't rise to being a
single carriageway freeway or a dual carriageway with infrequent
intersections or a mix of intersections and ramps.
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