"On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Henk Hoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > To my understanding our tagging-standard for State Highways is [STATE] > [NUMBER] > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#State_Highways > > User NE[2|3] is now changing all State Highway ref-tags in > [email protected] > from AR ## to Hwy ## > Examples: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.4239&lon=-93.0561&zoom=13&layers=M > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.015&lon=-93.4598&zoom=13&layers=M
Hi Henk! Getting ready for your road trip to SotM, I see. ;-) What the local and state authorities call a road is interesting but fails to consider our broader, global naming concerns. network= describes the highway network ref= distinct reference within that network In this case network="US_AR_AR" Historically, network="US:AR:AR" has been used but _ is better. ref="123" is correct. ref="Hwy 123" is incorrect. The "Hwy" portion of "Hwy ##" adds no actionable information for OpenStreetMap. "##" is better. ref="AR 123" is incorrect. AR duplicates information from the network tag. ref="SR 123" is incorrect. SR is ambiguous and duplicates information from the network tag. Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
