On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:03 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > In the mapping I have be doing so far I have been using the 'name=' tag > for both rural and city roads. > > I am seeing multiple places where a rural road is know by both 'Range Road > 5-2' and 'Old Airport Road'. How should these be tagged? > > It make sense to put 'name=Old Airport Road' and 'ref=Range Road 5-2', but > the reference would be written in a little box on the way, making a rather > large little box..... > > Also some roads have multiple references. > > Can someone please clarify how these should be tagged and update the > guidelines on the wiki.
To me, a ref is a purely numeric thing, like bus route 11 or highway 3. Thus Range Road 5-2 would be tagged name:2 or vice versa. Corey _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
