On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Richard Mann > <richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On the specific example, in the UK these would be tertiarys: an >> ordinary street that serves a "through" or within-city distribution >> function. They'd have to be pretty dominated by the traffic >> (effectively part of a gyratory) before they got tagged as >> primary_link > > I think of a tertiary highway as a collector or distributor, used in > the initial or final portion of the trip to get to or from the higher > classifications. These, on the other hand, are short connecting links > that could be anywhere in a trip; for instance, here US 30 eastbound > follows a portion of Woodlynne Avenue between the normal-looking ramp > and White Horse Pike: > http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=39.91878&lng=-75.088924&zoom=17&directions=39.92145421035915,-75.0871217250824,39.918343875726904,-75.0898790359497,39.91567776216949,-75.08675694465637&travel=car&styleId=1&opened_tab=1 > I think you can get away with either calling it a tertiary, or calling it a trunk_link (or indeed a trunk if it's 2-way). I'd tend towards "tertiary" if it's clearly residential (ie some effort made to keep speeds down), and trunk/trunk_link if it's non-residential. But it'd be a judgement call. The only absolute is making it the same from start to finish, cos otherwise it's bound to look messy when rendered.
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