[Talk-us] Alaska Highway AK-2 tagging

[Joseph Eisenberg]

Trunks are rarely expressways in remote parts of the world. In Britain,
where this tag started, many highway=trunk roads are not expressways or
motorroads.

Joseph

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 8:22 AM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 6:18 PM Joseph Eisenberg <
> joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I would use highway=trunk the whole way for consistency. In Canada the
>> connecting highway is also highway=trunk. This makes sense because AK 2 is
>> linking Fairbanks, the largest city in this part of Alaska, with All the
>> cities in Canada and the lower 48 States.
>>
>
> That's kind of my thinking as to why it should be primary instead of
> secondary (as typical for the US for state highways).  Almost all of it's
> not even paved, it'd be a hard stretch to call it an expressway (trunk).
>
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