moving thread to talk-us where it belongs
Begin forwarded message: > From: "Mike N" <[email protected]> > Date: 28 February 2010 9:17:01 PST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Help! Changeset reverted without explanation > > I don't see that the Wiki is self-contradictory in this case; it quite > clearly states the convention for US and US Interstate highway refs. > yes, but the wiki isn't free of errors and can't be used as absolute reference. Who wrote it? was it based on wide agreement? > Is there a good argument to omitting the state abbreviation from the ref? > Will the end result of changing to just a number be usable by the "Highway > Shields" project? The common reference "County road 49" comes to mind, and > how can county, state and US highways be distinguished from each other? > don't tag for the renderer! If it's absolutely needed use a special namespace e.g. hwshields:* and never hijack existing well defined tags. btw google, yahoo maps render state hw with numbers only. But they don't do state specific shields. I do like the current rendering where we clearly see when a route crosses state borders. If it's just for that reason I don't mind to keep the state prefix even that it is wrong. But if there is any strong reason to remove it then let's do it. > I have no opinion - it would be good to agree on the highway and route > relation tagging conventions. hw relations are not used by any renderer or software I know of. and after all the highway shields project is practically dead. there was one dirty hack which will never make it upstream. a really bad reason to stick to dirty relation tagging as defined in the wiki. it's a chicken egg situation. without having an acceptable standard very unlikely a renderer will ever implement the use of the hw relation. Any volunteering to organize a working group to discuss the highway tagging, agree on a standard and document it on the wiki. changing the osm DB can be done easily with some (semi)automatic edits later. > -------------- Original message from Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]>: > -------------- > > > >The reasons for the revert was because NE2 had changed many segments of SC > > >state highway ref tags from “SC xx” to “xx” that I had added. This is > > >counter to what the US highway wiki states, and there are good reasons for > > >keeping the “SC” in SC , which I don't want to get into here. I was not > > >offered any explanation why my edits were changed. > > > > The wiki is so self-contradictory that I'm sure it does state that in > > one place, and the opposite in another place. Every time I've tried to > > get a discussion going on improving this, there's been no interest. > > I believe I only changed those routes I was making other changes to. > > (By the way, I omit the state for the same reason we don't see "UK A1" > > - it's clear what's meant by a simple alphanumeric designation.) > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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