Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-07-26 18:48, Clay Smalley wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Apollinaris Schöll ascho...@gmail.com wrote: - multiple refs in tag with a semicolon: Many of them had been entered not too long ago and are clearly not a damage from the redaction. Wasn't the consensus to use

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jul 26, 2012 11:30 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: ref=FH nn - USFS Forest Highway ref=FR nXn[n][.n] - USFS Forest Route/Road ref=FT nXn[n][.n] - USFS Forest Trail IIRC, all three of these are a single NFD network, for National Forest Development, and are distinguishable

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-07-27 06:08, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jul 26, 2012 11:30 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: ref=FH nn - USFS Forest Highway ref=FR nXn[n][.n] - USFS Forest Route/Road ref=FT nXn[n][.n] - USFS Forest Trail IIRC, all three of these are a single NFD network, for National

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jul 27, 2012 8:07 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At least in Region 5 (CA), the roads have N or S in the X position, while trails have E or W. However, I wasn't sure that everyone would necessarily know that, so I went with a more descriptive prefix, based on the

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-07-27 08:22, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jul 27, 2012 8:07 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At least in Region 5 (CA), the roads have N or S in the X position, while trails have E or W. However, I wasn't sure that everyone would necessarily know that, so I went with a more

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Alan, I think you've identified another area where clarity is needed: What order should be used when entering multiple refs. I tend to do it with interstates first, then US routes, then state routes, within each group by number, low to high. However, a definite rule would be

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-07-27 09:34, Charlotte Wolter wrote: I think you've identified another area where clarity is needed: What order should be used when entering multiple refs. I tend to do it with interstates first, then US routes, then state routes, within each group by number, low to high.

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-07-27 09:44, Charlotte Wolter wrote: Alan was anticipating a question I was going to ask, whether to use FR (forest road) or FS (Forest Service) or Forest Service spelled out. I have seen all three. Reading his contribution, it seems we should use FR for the tracklike forest

Re: [Talk-us] Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-07-27 09:58, Charlotte Wolter wrote: On a local note, would that mean that S78 in San Diego County, the one that goes to Anza Borrego, would be tagged ref=CR78 and network=US:CA:Orange? I think you mean (state, not county road) SR-78 here:

[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Mintz
Here's the page I was thinking of: http://www.cahighways.org/num-forest.html . It links to another good page: http://tchester.org/sgm/lists/anf_map_roads.html . Getting the road/trail names/numbers out of the USFS is difficult, requiring a fair amount of research to find a map on which it is

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Highway ref again.

2012-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
OK, to the list this time...damn gmail and lack of reply-to-list... On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.netwrote: Getting the road/trail names/numbers out of the USFS is difficult, requiring a fair amount of research to find a map on which it is legible,