[Talk-us] US Trunk road tagging

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 9:54 AM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:23 AM Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:
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>> Aside from specific cartographic needs, there's an argument for using
>> route membership as an easy proxy for connectivity. Indeed, one can
>> retag a great many roads this way without ever looking at aerial
>> imagery, which is how Oregonian3 kicked off the latest iteration of this
>> debate.
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> Do you know for a fact that this is how Oregonian3 did their reclassification?  It doesn't seem that the reclassifications fit this assumption.  For example, not all US Routes were treated the same.  US 34 from Estes Park to the junction with US 36 in Rocky Mountain National Park was downgraded to secondary, while US 36 in the same area was left as primary.

>From what I saw in the other thread, Oregonian3 reclassified things
based off traffic counts.  Personally, in my view, it'd have to be a
really strange situation for a US highway to be ranked lower than
primary...