There are plenty of things in OSM which are not verifiable on the ground. That in itself is not a reason to disqualify it from OSM or relegate it to "second class information". It's more about the fact that there is a verifiable source of authoritative information (appropriately licensed of course) so the information is objectively correct.
In the south east of England there are also loads of tertiary/unclassified roads tagged in this way, based on authoritative information from the highways authority (county council etc). Really it's a rendering issue IMHO as to whether to suppress these labels in the UK (other countries may use them differently). Colin On 2013-03-17 10:54, sk53.osm wrote: > I've noticed that many minor roads in the Highland Region of Scotland have been tagged with ref=[CU]#### based on a PDF document from the regions transport department. I've altered a few of these where I've encountered them to official:ref=* as I don't believe that these are verifiable on the ground in any way. > > I'd be interested in what others think (these council based refs do appear elsewhere in the country: I can't recall ever seeing one on a road sign). > > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb [1] Links: ------ [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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