On 6/2/25 6:14 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
I'm pretty sure 4 digit Forest Service roads that are a single way and have no reason to be divided (since they tend to be forestry tracks of only a few hundred meters) really can't violate the one object, one OSM entity guideline by tagging ref on way, so that'd be a no-change situation either way. I'm focusing on all routes that have 2 or more member ways, for this reason.
Many are more than a few hundred meters sometimes many kilometers on very bad, very narrow, 4 wheel drive roads, and not all are 4 digits. Each national forest uses it's own ref schema. It's not unusual to see a possible highway relation contained a dozen ore more segments, each one has difference metadata important to OSM like width, surface, tracktype, and smoothess. If you are driving these remote highways, these differences are important! To me the name could be in a relation, as it is the only consistent tag amongst all the ways. But each way all needs these other tags for each highway segment (way).
- rob - -- https://www.senecass.com
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