[Talk-us] Second thoughts

2014-10-13 Thread Tom Fistere
Hello! My name is Tom Fistere and I go by CountryLoon on OSM. After about a week of editing I thought I should throw out a couple of questions and comments of what I am doing so far... I have started looking at the road typing throughout the state of Minnesota as it gives me an opportunity to

Re: [Talk-us] Second thoughts

2014-10-13 Thread Dale Puch
US 52 FOLLOWS I 94 to me means they are concurrent, even if Minnesota only has signs for I94 instead of I94/US52 So it is a matter of presentation, not facts. Here in Florida there are places where most signs list only one name, but periodically there will be references to other names sharing the

Re: [Talk-us] Second thoughts

2014-10-13 Thread Jack Burke
OSM has the tag unsigned_ref to handle exactly this situation. There just isn't a wiki page describing it. -jack On October 13, 2014 3:45:22 PM EDT, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote: US 52 FOLLOWS I 94 to me means they are concurrent, even if Minnesota only has signs for I94 instead of

Re: [Talk-us] Second thoughts

2014-10-13 Thread Brad Neuhauser
It's in pretty wide use (35K uses), so I created a page in the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:unsigned_ref But I don't really know the details of usage or best practice, so I hope others can fix and add to what's there... On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Jack Burke