Just 6 months ago, Florida was absolutely littered with incorrectly tagged trunk roads (i.e. US and state highways tagged as trunk rather than primary). The rendering of Florida looked like a bloodshot eye, and correctly tagged trunk roads (i.e. Pineda Causeway, US 27 in Everglades) were mixed with incorrect ones. The problem was made even worse by an editor who mainly edited the California area, by tagging correct primary roads as incorrect trunk roads[a].

To standardize the tagging of trunk roads in a general ‘east’ location[b], a general ‘trunk road in the East US guidelines’ was agreed upon:

• Road must have very few to no at-grade intersections (about 5 per county/parish);
• Road may or may not be divided (contrary to motorway);
• Road may be any speed;
• Road may have any designation;
• Road may or may not allow foot traffic, cycle traffic, etc.

Following the agreement of these guidelines, I set off to change Florida’s trunk route scheme. First I started with US 192/CR 15 (now tagged as primary/secondary) and just kept going, until finally Florida was clean[c]!

But it wasn’t done.

No, sir, we need a general tagging scheme in place for county, state, and non-designated streets. Putting guidelines in place (mainly following California’s with tweaks), I set off with Brevard and Orange counties in mind to fix. I am currently working on those projects.

Of course, this is not the only thing I do. If I go geocaching, I might add some park features at the park it was in. I might improve waterways[d], other businesses, etc. But my main focus continues to be on CR/SR/non-designated roads.

• [a] Standards differ between California and Florida.
• [b] TODO: east of Mississippi or straight down the center?
• [c] Fixing such a large state wasn’t easy, but it took about 3 months.
• [d] One of such edits turned out to be controversial, but it was cleared up.