Hi Sebastian, see osm.wiki/Key:expressway -- access control alone is not sufficient for `highway=motorway` tagging. For controlled-access but undivided (just yellow paint) segments, then expressway=yes is sufficient to denote the enhanced infrastructure that is not up to federal instate highway standards.

Hi Sebastian, please review these two wiki articles. The tagging convention in the US is to avoid using highway=motorway for very short segments of enhanced infrastructure where the portion that is enhanced to interstate standards is less than 2 miles and isn't otherwise part of the motorway network. In cases like Amherst's keeping the highway=primary and adding expressway=yes is the preferred tagging.

- osm.wiki/United_States/2021_Highway_Classification_Guidance
- osm.wiki/Key:expressway

Please join us in the OSM Community forum's US category: https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/us/78 or the OSM-US Slack's #highway-classification channel to discuss these topics.

Hi bibliotreka, I've reverted this change as the current community consensus is that highway=trunk is a connectivity-based classification, not a physical-infrastructure classification. highway=trunk is to be used for the most important regional roads that are *not* motorways. The fact that MA-8 doesn't look like a motorway (yet is still an important regional connector between Pittsfield and Vermont is why this road receives the top-level highway=trunk classification. Please see osm.wiki/United_States/2021_Highway_Classification_Guidance and join us in discussions on https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/us/78 or the OSM-US Slack's #highway classification channel: https://slack.openstreetmap.us/

osm.org/changeset/151771021

Hi @edops, I agree that places in Maine had been severely over-classified before this change and that this new state is probably a better starting point for place classification than every municipality being place=town. That said, OSM is a community project large-scale unilateral changes are frowned upon and can lead to edit wars. Please join in the discussion at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/broad-undiscussed-new-england-place-name-reclassification/111201 to discuss Maine place classification with others in the community.

Please read osm.wiki/United_States/Tags#Places and join in the forum discussion at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/broad-undiscussed-new-england-place-name-reclassification/111201/7

From https://maps.vtrans.vermont.gov/Maps/TownMapSeries/WINDSOR_Co/HARTFORD/HARTFORD_MILEAGE_2022.pdf it does look like the Town "discontinued" part of the road, which would revert that segment to "ownership=private". I don't have on-the-ground knowledge as to whether it is posted as "No trespassing" or other access restriction though.

See also:
* osm.wiki/Vermont#Road_Ownership_and_Access
* osm.wiki/Vermont#Town_Highway_and_Legal_Trail_details

Thanks for the quick turn-around!

Hi @scarapella, I just noticed the use of this little waterway=link way via the new map produced that shows the end-points of flows in waterways:
https://waterwaymap.org/ends/#map=18.2/46.763195/-69.305047

I've not seen the waterway=lnk tag used before, but if that is important to map I'd suggest flipping the direction of osm.org/way/1236467015 so that it goes into the Allagash River instead of diverting the Allagash river's flow out.

See also:
* https://github.com/amandasaurus/waterwaymap.org
* https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2024-January/088486.html

Once again, please join the community conversation before changing place=* values at
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

The place=* tag is for the the importance of the community relative to its region, not for the incorporation status. Incorporation status can be placed in the border_type=* tag on the boundary relation for the municipality as is seen in this example: osm.org/relation/170184#map=13/44.4938/-71.2237
See this community discussion on this topic: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/administrative-level-of-townships-in-maine/107233

osm.org/changeset/146722653

Once again, please join the community conversation before changing place=* values at
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

The place=* tag is for the the importance of the community relative to its region, not for the incorporation status. Incorporation status can be placed in the border_type=* tag on the boundary relation for the municipality as is seen in this example: osm.org/relation/170184#map=13/44.4938/-71.2237
See this community discussion on this topic: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/administrative-level-of-townships-in-maine/107233

osm.org/changeset/146722653

Once again, please join the community conversation before changing place=* values at
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

The place=* tag is for the the importance of the community relative to its region, not for the incorporation status. Incorporation status can be placed in the border_type=* tag on the boundary relation for the municipality as is seen in this example: osm.org/relation/170184#map=13/44.4938/-71.2237
See this community discussion on this topic: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/administrative-level-of-townships-in-maine/107233

osm.org/changeset/146722653

Once again, please join the community conversation before changing place=* values at
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

The place=* tag is for the the importance of the community relative to its region, not for the incorporation status. Incorporation status can be placed in the border_type=* tag on the boundary relation for the municipality as is seen in this example: osm.org/relation/170184#map=13/44.4938/-71.2237
See this community discussion on this topic: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/administrative-level-of-townships-in-maine/107233

osm.org/changeset/146722653

Once again, please join the community conversation before changing place=* values at
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

The place=* tag is for the the importance of the community relative to its region, not for the incorporation status. Incorporation status can be placed in the border_type=* tag on the boundary relation for the municipality as is seen in this example: osm.org/relation/170184#map=13/44.4938/-71.2237
See this community discussion on this topic: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/administrative-level-of-townships-in-maine/107233

osm.org/changeset/146722653

Once again, please join the community conversation before changing place=* values at
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

The place=* tag is for the the importance of the community relative to its region, not for the incorporation status. Incorporation status can be placed in the border_type=* tag on the boundary relation for the municipality as is seen in this example: osm.org/relation/170184#map=13/44.4938/-71.2237
See this community discussion on this topic: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/administrative-level-of-townships-in-maine/107233

osm.org/changeset/146722653

Once again, please join the community conversation before changing place=* values at
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

The place=* tag is for the the importance of the community relative to its region, not for the incorporation status. Incorporation status can be placed in the border_type=* tag on the boundary relation for the municipality as is seen in this example: osm.org/relation/170184#map=13/44.4938/-71.2237
See this community discussion on this topic: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/administrative-level-of-townships-in-maine/107233

osm.org/changeset/146722653

Once again, please join the community conversation before changing place=* values at
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

The place=* tag is for the the importance of the community relative to its region, not for the incorporation status. Incorporation status can be placed in the border_type=* tag on the boundary relation for the municipality as is seen in this example: osm.org/relation/170184#map=13/44.4938/-71.2237
See this community discussion on this topic: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/administrative-level-of-townships-in-maine/107233

osm.org/changeset/146722653

Please do not unilaterally change place name classification without reading and participating in the discussion at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

osm.org/changeset/145087318

Please do not unilaterally change place name classification without reading and participating in the discussion at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

osm.org/changeset/145087318

Please do not unilaterally change place name classification without reading and participating in the discussion at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878

osm.org/changeset/145087318