[Talk-us] Alaska Highway AK-2 tagging

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 7:17 PM Eric H. Christensen <eric at aehe.us> wrote:

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> On Monday, December 16, 2019 7:35 PM, Tod Fitch <tod at fitchfamily.org>
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> > My reading of the wiki indicates that for the United States a trunk is
> “a high speed Arterial Divided highway that is partially grade separated.”
> [1]
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> > What is the problem with having the main road between
> regions/cities/towns being “primary”? Do you like the rendering of trunk
> better?
> >
> > For myself if I planned a driving trip and was expecting a trunk road
> I’d sure be surprised to find areas that are undivided and apparently, from
> other responses in this thread, unpaved in sections.
> >
> > [1]
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Road_classification#Trunk
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> I haven't seen that wiki page before.  Looking at the trunk page[0], the
> highway need not be divided and the U.S.-specific portion says "Surface
> expressway: A relatively high-speed divided road (at least 40 MPH with a
> barrier or median separating each direction of traffic), with a limited
> amount of intersections and driveways; or a major intercity highway. This
> includes many U.S. Highways (that do not parallel an Interstate) and some
> state highways.".  To me that meets the requirement for AK-2.
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For a single carriageway road?  Seems like it's going the long way around
describing the southern loop of the Duncan Bypass
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/34.4971/-97.9862> or the entire
length of the Chicasaw Turnpike
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/34.5619/-96.9284>.
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