Chris, Good suggestion using operator=AASHTO. I decided to go with network=ncn, operator=AASHTO
Spencer ________________________________ From: Chris Lawrence <[email protected]> To: Spencer Riddile <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:12:23 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Bike Route 76 On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Spencer Riddile <[email protected]> wrote: > What would the advantage/disadvantage be of using a different network name > ("usbrs" vs. "ncn") for U.S. bike routes. The author of open cycle map > would have to adjust their symbolization if we started using "usbrs". Is it > good to try to keep some international standard even though trail and route > systems may be different in various ways. The advantage is that "ncn" isn't the name of the U.S. bike route system ;-). Or, less glibly, the US Bike Route System isn't part of the UK National Cycle Network. But if other countries' mappers have also adopted ncn for their top-level bike networks then the cart has already left the barn on that, so it's not too important. It just means that a programmatic tool that extracts bike networks for a particular country from the OSM data is going to have to be smarter than simply looking at the network tag. Using e.g. operator=usbrs or operator=AASHTO (AASHTO designates the US bike route system) along with network=ncn would probably be the next best thing. Chris
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