I like Zeke's approach. Andrew
On 10/25/2010, Zeke Farwell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't know what to call it, but values would be interstate, us_route, >> state_route, county_route, etc. The specific information about what >> county/state it's in, the human readable name, the prefix, etc. should all >> be stored in different tags (and not stuffed into one long network=* tag). >> > > > This sounds like a great use for the network tag to me. There are basically > 4 highway networks in this country: Interstate, US, State, and County. I > know that technically each state and county has it's own separate network, > but most renderers are just going to display generic shields for state & > county. For those who do want to render different shields for each state > and/or county routes why not use sub tags as we commonly do for many other > osm features: > > For Michigan route 12: > ref=12 > network=state > state=michigan > > For Bennington County route 16 in Vermont: > ref=16 > network=county > state=vermont > county=bennington > > > Zeke > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

