This seems relevant to this thread, although it's not in reply to any particular part of it:
As part of a school project, I'm creating a robot that will use the TIGER metadata to automatically attempt to create route relations for State Roads. (The Interstates and US Highways are mostly finished, it seems, but there are tens of thousands of state routes that haven't been touched.) I'd love to see a consensus on how to tag these roads come pretty quickly, as I'll need to have something finished in less than 2 months (school schedules are rough, man!). So far, it seems to be something like type=route route=road network=US:NY <- state abbreviation ref=87 <- number only symbol=* or for county roads, network=US:NY:Albany <- full county name One thing I /haven't/ seen addressed yet is whether single relations are preferred, or one relation for each way with a super-relation. Currently both are in use, but I think it would be a lot easier for future code if we pick one and move towards it from now on. ~ Peter Budny P.S. Before you write to tell me bots aren't welcome... stop. We already had this discussion out on dev. I'm going to be developing against a sandbox database, and not uploading any changes (yet). I'll start by sharing changeset files with the lists to give everyone a chance to nitpick and find mistakes. And when the robot is "ready", I may still run it by publishing changeset files and letting people integrate them manually. So please don't write to say I don't know what I'm doing and my contributions aren't welcome. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
