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77702439 over 5 years ago

Hello,
As you can probably tell, the accuracy of some of my earliest edits (as far as classifications go) is certainly underwhelming to say the least.
Most of those edits have already been reverted, and some of the other ones I've revisited and replaced with classifications based on the WV functional classification system.

87571204 over 5 years ago

Any problems with the relation should be fixed now.

87571204 over 5 years ago

Quick Note: iD alerted to an edit conflict that occurred (never had that pop up before) - it looks like it might have messed up some parts of the WV 92 relation. Looking into this.

80868059 over 5 years ago

Hello,
Thanks for bringing this back to my attention.
Based on feedback I've received from other editors, I revised the classification down to highway=unclassified (as it is an unpaved county route), and reclassified parts of the road I haven't finished aligning yet to highway=unclassified as well.
Thanks,
TZLNCTV

79616593 almost 6 years ago

I set the track status of ones I haven't verified to disused, pending some kind of field review.

79534554 almost 6 years ago

It's abandoned, but there are some indications that there are still rails on the ground along potentially the entire line.

(See https://www.wvncrails.org/west-virginia-midland-railroad.html)

72472046 over 6 years ago

Hello,

There was a map I saw not long ago that showed what appeared to be a road under construction (near completion) along this alignment. I can't remember where I found it at this point, but it showed the road as some sort of cutoff between the two roads. I'll look to see if I can find it again and respond if I do.

72470438 over 6 years ago

Hello. (Apologies for the extremely late response)

One of the main reasons I've been adding continuous primary routes between county seats is because the county seats are almost always the largest towns in the county; additionally, they usually have the highest concentration of services (and, of course, primary routes are intended to connect the largest towns).

As a result, I've been thinking of primary routes in more relative terms, with county seats as the nodes in a sort of mesh of primary routes. It makes no sense for the primary routes to be limited to between state capitals, so the next level down in the hierarchy are county seats.

A minor thought of mine was traffic distribution; if there are no marked direct roads across, routing systems may place you on a route going through another county seat in the process. In low-population counties this may not be much of a concern, but in higher-population counties it can consolidate traffic, increasing congestion on the mentioned primary road. Adding a primary route directly between the two county seats could ease congestion by distributing the traffic.

72470438 over 6 years ago

Hello. Apologies for the issues from this changeset, as I should have reviewed the existing data more thoroughly. My reclassifications attempt to resolve the problem I've noticed where roads between county seats are not marked as primary when they are, at least relative to those around them. As these particular county seats are farther apart than most of the others, I'll go ahead and change OH-350 to secondary, and leave the SR-28 primary ending at Leesburg until I figure out something west of that point.