On 02/24/2011 07:18 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> writes: > >> In the US there are two long federally-maintained roads, the Blue >> Ridge Parkway and Natchez Trace Parkway, that were built for the sole >> purpose of sightseeing. Since they are surrounded by a narrow strip of >> parkland, access is only allowed at certain points, so they are >> technically expressways (normally trunk in the US). On the other hand, >> they are not intended in any way for utilitarian travel, and >> functionally fit approximately as secondary or tertiary. >> >> Tagging is thus inconsistent. It looks like the BRP was recently all >> changed to secondary, but the NTP has portions of residential (obvious >> BS) and primary. I'm pretty sure I've also seen trunk and tertiary >> used in the past. > > They probably should be secondary, as that conveys the right impression. > > On the other hand, some apparently non-local user has messed up tagging > of Route 2 near Boston/Cambridge (from alewife to the science museum) > and made them trunk when they obviously aren't (to anyone who has been > on them - no limited access, constant at-grade intersections, frequent > lights), so maybe you could look into and fix that too :-) > > http://osm.org/go/ZfI4nILQ-
Looks primary at best, possibly secondary. Trunk is entirely inappropriate because it's not even close to being a freeway with intersections.
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