Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-09-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 6:29 PM Kevin Kenny wrote: > Heh. Sometimes you have to wait a long time. The signage on 'Avenue of > the Americas' in New York City has said that since the 1950's. The > Postal Service prefers that name on street addresses. New Yorkers > call it Sixth Avenue, which

Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-09-02 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 4:18 PM Nathan Mills wrote: > My personal opinion is that if local practice and the USPS continue to use > the old name, that name should stay in the name tag, while the Legislature's > political name should be tagged as an alt_name. That said, there are > situations in

Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-09-02 Thread Nathan Mills
The New Sapulpa Road situation is in practice a road with a secondary name. Just like Flagler Street in part of Miami (FL, not OK) is defined by the state legislature as being "Natan A Rok Boulevard" (or similar, working from memory here). My personal opinion is that if local practice and the

Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-09-01 Thread Kerry Irons
= there are some roads in Massachusetts that have actual names and route numbers (example: name="Grand Army of the Republic Highway" ref="US 6"), but for reasons unknown there are street addresses like "3570 Route 6". Even though there is zero

Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-09-01 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 5:28 AM Greg Troxel wrote: > > From: Albert Pundt > Subject: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate > X", etc. > To: "talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap" > > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 20

Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-09-01 Thread Greg Troxel
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Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-08-31 Thread Evin Fairchild
Yeah, I agree, it is redundant and thus completely unnecessary to put the highway number in the name tag. Have you informed SSR_317 about this discussion? On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 7:09 PM Albert Pundt wrote: > I notice the user SSR_317 has been adding the route numbers of unnamed > roads to

Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
Yes, this is correct. name=* is only the name. Ideally, the ref=* tag should be *supplemental* to a proper route relation at this point (especially in Indiana, where I am aware of a *nine-way* concurrency, something ref=* just doesn't handle very elegantly at all in even the slightest stretch of

[Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-08-31 Thread Albert Pundt
I notice the user SSR_317 has been adding the route numbers of unnamed roads to the name=* tag of roads around Indianapolis. For example, name=Interstate 465, name=US 31, name=State Route 37, etc. Isn't this practice frowned upon as being redundant and not reflecting the lack of a proper name to