On 12/22/12 10:39 PM, James Mast wrote:
I personally think that the letter shouldn't be stored in the "ref" tags on the ways as they could
be considered as an internal designation that just happens to make it onto the route shields. Maybe the
letters could be added as an additional tag like "ref:txdot=I 35-V"? They are so small that nobody
but the roadgeeks are really going to notice or pay attention to them to be honest. I mean, do people in
Texas really say "take the next right @ I-35-V Business"?
you can argue about what the ref tags should contain. as a practical
matter, data consumers frequently assume that what's in the ref tag (on
a way, different from ref tag on a route relation) can be rendered as is
as the text on the highway shield. we need to accept that this is what
it is and confine the ref tag to those things that are reasonably
observable by the average motorist. this is why i am hostile, for
example, to putting NYS reference routes in the ref tag, except for
those four cases where the reference routes got actual NYS highway
shields (for the most part, NYS reference route numbers are invisible to
the normal driver.)
richard
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