[Talk-us] Mass Change of Highway Classification in Larimer County Colorado

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, May 4, 2021, 18:40 Evin Fairchild <evindfair at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, we only care about physical characteristics when it comes to
> motorways. According to the wiki, *only* motorways are defined by physical
> characteristics; everything from trunk on down is defined by importance.
>

The wiki should be documenting how we map things, not prescribing how we
map things.  If that's what the wiki says, it's wrong and neesa to be fixed.


After all, that's what the words trunk, primary, secondary mean--they refer
> to how important something is. It really would be nice if we could agree to
> harmonize the US' tagging standards for trunk to be based on importance.
>

We did, trunks are expressways.  Until NE2 mass-smashed everything in
network=US:US to highway=trunk.
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