On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Brian Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Personally I'd think a per-state consensus would already be quite good. > > Greece and Norway use different tagging schemes - so why would anyone be > "held back" if Texas uses something other than Alaska? > > Simply put, Greece and Norway are different countries. When I drive > across the border into California, we still use the same nomenclature > for roads. > > Having 50 committees to decide the naming is another way of saying "it > will never happen". > > When I was on the Bike/Ped committee in my town (not this one) the > traffic engineers referred to AASHTO for standards. (See > transportation.org.) My guess is they have standards for it already. > I'd start by finding out if that's true and then put their names into > the wiki as the starting point. Asking Portland Metro for help would > be a good idea, I will write to them directly in a moment but I am > pretty sure they read this list. > > I know looking at the Brit names in OSM that they don't work here, we > are "two countries separated by a common language." > > This is an interesting thread, but I don't think we need to have a discussion about tagging consistency on this thread. Consider "Advocate for tagging (especially highway) consistency" added to the list of things a US chapter should do. Can we think of anything else?
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