Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

2014-03-28 Thread Phil! Gold
* Elliott Plack [2014-03-28 02:53 -0400]: > Interesting note about this in Maryland. My friend Mike showed me that some > mappers have been using the *county* route numbers on some county roads in > Maryland. Since Maryland counties don't sign their route numbers[0], they're using unsigned_ref=,

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

2014-03-28 Thread Elliott Plack
Phil, That's right. I would use unsigned_ref for county routes. In Baltimore County the county route numbers are never signed and not really even advertised. You'd have to look at SHA databases to figure out the ref. Here is an example using the proposed tagging (without using relations). http://

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Weait
"* the ref= on relations only contains the number. Any data consumer composes the full route shield / name from the network and the ref tags." Almost. :-) ref= contains the specific identifier of the route. where I-35 splits into I-35E and I-35W (in two different states!) the ref= should be 35E o

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/28/14 11:33 AM, Elliott Plack wrote: > Phil, > > That's right. I would use unsigned_ref for county routes. In Baltimore > County the county route numbers are never signed and not really even > advertised. You'd have to look at SHA databases to figure out the ref. Here > is an example using the

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

2014-03-28 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, been following the thread, just hadn't yet taken the time to write. Part of the confusion is the lack of a 'definitive' wiki page. Here are some links, partly contradicting each other: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Unit

Re: [Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

2014-03-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 23:53 2014-03-27, Elliott Plack wrote: Interesting note about this in Maryland. My friend Mike showed me that some mappers have been using the *county* route numbers on some county roads in Maryland. All county roads in MD have a 4 digit number that starts with CO, like CO1150. CO is also the