On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Val Kartchner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 07:52 -0400, Peter Dobratz wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Henk Hoff <[email protected]> wrote: >> > To my understanding our tagging-standard for State Highways is [STATE] >> > [NUMBER] >> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#State_Highways >> >> I agree that we should use the standard 2-letter state abbreviation >> and then the number: "AK 7" > > Because of the international nature of this project, we need to include > the country as well.
Whatever we do, can we please have a vote on it? I know votes aren't binding, but it's better than having this discussion over and over again. I'd say the first order of business is to create a listing of what each state uses, whether it be "SR 123" or "VA 123". I tend to think it's not a good idea to put just the number in the ref tag for ways, e.g. "123", as there is ambiguity unless you rely on other tags, but "US:VA 123" is too verbose, and belongs more in the route relation as part of the network. I'd vote for either "SR 123" or "VA 123", as neither are "incorrect", but gives a decent rendering on maps and narrative directions. If we standardize on one or the other, data consumers can fairly easily transform back and forth. -Josh _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
