[Talk-us] Alaska Highway AK-2 tagging

[Joseph Eisenberg]

Alaska is not attached to the rest of the USA, so consistency with the
Yukon Territory and British Columbia is equally important.

In the western USA, highway=trunk is not limited to expressways like it is
in Germany and France

On the West Coast, several important State highways are tagged as trunks
even though they are not full expressways, because they are the main road
for a large region. For example, see US 199, US 101, CA 99 and CA 299 on
this map of far Northern California:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/40.681/-123.184

Expressways should be tagged with additional details like lanes=, surface,
maxspeed=, expressway=yes, and motorroad=yes

The latter two tags could be useful for rendering if they were applied
consistently.

- Joseph Eisenberg

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 8:29 AM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 6:26 PM Joseph Eisenberg <
> joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Are we not trying to remain internally consistent with the rest of the US?
>
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