[Talk-us] US Trunk road tagging

[Evin Fairchild]

On Wed, May 5, 2021, 10:12 AM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> The wiki should be reflective of how things are mapped, not
> prescribing how to map.  The wiki should be updated to reflect this.
>

Ok, you are more than welcome to start a discussion on removing importance
from being considered when using the highway=* tag.

The NHS should not be a frame of reference, as there are a lot of
> situations where what the state has built up and what route people
> actually take simply doesn't reflect NHS's often absurd take on the
> national grid.  But, if you really do want to base your routing on
> that, we already have NHS routes in the map as route relations.
>

Do you have examples of this, where the fastest route between two places is
not on an NHS route? It seems like NHS routes are routed on the most direct
route between large towns/small cities.

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