[Talk-us] US Trunk road tagging

[Clifford Snow]

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 7:54 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.
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> I introduced the suggestion that Oregonian3 may have based their
reclassification using traffic counts. I discovered that Oregonian3 had
used that method in previous edits in other parts of the country. I
strongly urge contacting Oregonian3 to get their input. Not only on the
recent changes but also on the bigger discussion of how highways in the US
should be classified.


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