* Kate Chapman <k...@maploser.com> [2012-05-10 14:01 -0400]: > I think if we were too look at what is on the sign I bet it is U.S.S. > > MLK though often fully spells out the name on the sign. > > I would think in these cases it should be what is on the sign. Since > it isn't an abbreviation of the road type, but the actual street name.
I agree. I've made similar decisions about stuff in my area. The right of way of the old Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad has been repurposed in various places. One part is a road signed as WB&A Road, which I've opted to tag as "name=WB&A Road". Another part is a hike/bike trail often referred to as the WB&A Trail, but officially called the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Trail, so I've tagged it as "name=Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Trail". (Coincidentally, as I looked at the map to check my tagging, I saw that another part of the WB&A right of way is a Martin Luther King Jr Highway.) -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- (format t "~@?" "(format t \"~~@?\" ~:*~S)") ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
