It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

It is not appropriate to set the place=* value based on the incorporation status of municipalities. In OSM the place=* tag should have a value that is based on the size, amenities, and importance of the community, not it's incorporation status. In New England, the basic unit of municipal incorporation is called a "Town", but this doesn't mean that such a municipality demands a "place=town".
place=*#Populated_settlements,_urban_and_rural

Please follow up with the New England mapping community in the thread at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-england-place-name-inflation/103878/12

I'm planning a canoe trip through Saint Regis next week and just wanted to thank you for mapping the camp sites. It will make finding them so much easier. :-D

I don't know yet, but I hope to find out soon! :-)

Please note, this was an attempt based on several days of driving through this area, but my local knowledge is that of a visitor rather than resident. I may have missed some roads that should be upgraded or chosen the wrong one of two parallel roads connecting hamlets.

The move away from expressway==trunk toward splitting those meanings into a separate expressway=yes and highway=* meaning connectivity-importance involved 17 participants on almost 70 messages on the [talk-us] mailing list beginning in May 2021 followed by more than 50 participants writing over 4,000 messages in the #highway-classification channel of the OSM-US Slack up to May 2022, with many more since. I talked about this history at SOTM-US last year: https://youtu.be/jWQUldGg43A

Rather than hiding the distinct American concept of expressways, we're actually trying to highlight them by shifting to a distinct expressway=yes tag that explicitly and clearly means what it says. America is a place of much varied and patchwork infrastructure with many highways getting upgraded to expressway-level infrastructure in segments. While OSM-Carto does not support distinct rendering of this tag, other renders do. See the Austin, TX area in the OSM-Americana renderer for a good example of a mixture of highway=primary+expressway=yes roads that connect within the city as as well as highway=trunk roads that connect between important regional centers that alternate between expressway-level infrastructure and not:
https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/#map=10.51/30.393/-97.6344

I don't have local knowledge of the roadway at hand and which sections are expressways or not, but I can see that it parallels a motorway and isn't itself the main connector between significant regional cities. highway=primary probably makes sense if it is the most important local road within a city.

As described in osm.wiki/United_States/2021_Highway_Classification_Guidance , `highway=trunk` is not to be used for indicating enhanced "expressway"-type construction, but rather the regional connectivity importance of a road. If this does have mostly "expressway" character, then use "highway=primary|secondary|etc" to indicate the level of regional connectivity importance and add "expressway=yes" to indicate the enhanced level of infrastructure. See expressway=* for further details on this tag.

This seems like a pretty short section of limited-access to classify as a motorway. Maybe maintaining highway=trunk + expressway=yes would better capture the situation.

This seems like a pretty short section of limited-access to classify as a motorway. Maybe maintaining highway=trunk + expressway=yes would better capture the situation.