On 4 August 2010 08:23, Apollinaris Schoell <ascho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Kevin Atkinson <ke...@atkinson.dhs.org> > wrote: >> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: >>> On 3 Aug 2010, at 22:32 , Kevin Atkinson wrote: >>> most of the times I see it >>> name=Frontage Road >>> ref=US 29 >>> >>> this will be rendered in similar way as on other maps. Name is on the >>> street and US, I, is on a shield. Doesn't make sense to duplicate the ref on >>> the name. >> >> Since when does a frontage road get a Highway shield? >> > > got this wrong and meant Frontage road is a name, but now need to > correct altogether. > but what is meant here has most likely no name at all. frontage road is a > then a type of highway not a name. and US 29 in any form is not really a > name either. > again all other maps will not render names unless there really is a defined > name. > normally ramp, access road, frontage road are mapped as highway=*link > without name
Maybe the description= tag would be better for that, although name= is traditionally abused so much for descriptions that I don't see it as a problem. I agree about U.S. not being read out fully, so possibly it's better written this way too. Cheers _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
