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`highway=*`	Description	Historical considerations	Existing examples	Historical examples
`motorway`


`trunk`	Connects urbanized regions or new towns; or across an urbanized region	Only use when new towns are established? (Represents functionality, and is convenient to change less)
`trunk`
`primary`	Connects sub-regions, or non-urbanized regions; or across a sub-region	Ignore LTRS 2-digit routes? (eg Rt14 Po Kong Village Rd; Rt41 Wai Yip St; Rt42 Hiram's Hwy)	Clearwater Bay Rd (for Sai Kung DC)	NTCR?
`primary`	Connects sub-regions or new towns with higher ranked roads		Hung Tin Rd Long Tin Rd
`secondary`	Between `place=suburb` , or across a `place=suburb`
	Connects `place=suburb` with higher ranked roads
	Between new towns connecting villages		Fan Kam Rd
	Connecting rural market towns		Hiram's Hwy
	Connecting significant rural recreational destinations
`tertiary`	Between parts of a `place=suburb` , or across a part of `place=suburb`
`tertiary`	Connecting rural areas with new towns		Deep Bay Rd
`unclassified`	Connects multiple `highway=residential` , or with higher ranked roads
`unclassified`	Connects higher ranked roads with villages
`residential`	Local streets
`residential`	Roads inside villages
`living_street`
`pedestrian`
`service`
`track`