Try looking in the US:OK and US:OK:Turnpike networks. Pretty verigated mix of divided, undivided and intermittently divided routes there. On Nov 18, 2013 3:05 PM, "Jason Remillard" <remillard.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > As a meta comment. I have been trying to follow all of the US > route/shield discussions over the past couple of months. I don't feel > confident that I understand the consensus on how to map these > routes+shields and do not feel comfortable editing them. When the dust > settles, could somebody that know what they are doing update the wiki > for the rest of us. > > Thanks > Jason > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:30 AM, James Mast <rickmastfa...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm just curious, but what's everybody's opinion on this? I know it's > > acceptable for the Interstates (some are setup this way, some aren't) > since > > they are all divided, but what about for US Highways and State Highways? > I > > know that we want to eventually have the cardinal directions in OSM for > the > > routers so they can properly tell people which direction the of the > highway > > they need to turn onto (like turn left onto Westbound US-30). > > > > So, how do we do this and also how do we let people know that aren't > part of > > talk-us about any possible change so that relations don't get broken > after > > they've been converted into separate directions? I mean, we can turn the > > current state relations for a highway into a "super" relation for each > state > > once we create a new relation for each direction. Also how are we going > to > > name each relation? Something like this: > > > > US 48 (WV - eastbound) > > US 48 (WV - westbound) > > US 48 (WV - super) > > > > Plus we can't forget to add in the "direction=*" tag in the relations as > > well as the "role" area (or should we just use "forward" there or even > tag > > nothing there, and leave the direction in the tag area) as we can't > expect > > the routers to get the direction info from the "name" tag. > > > > So for detecting relations that get broken after they've been converted > (we > > should do all the Interstates first, then US highways, and then State > > highways), we need a way to let dedicated mappers know when they've been > > broken (aka, a "gap") so they can be fixed quickly. An idea of having a > > something automatically annalizing the relations whenever they are > modified, > > kinda like the "OSM Relation Analyzer" [1], would work best IMO. Except > > with this analyzer, it produces a RSS feed that will let people > subscribed > > to it know that there is a broken relation that needs to be repaired. > And > > once it's been fixed, it will send out a new post on the feed saying that > > the relation no longer has a gap so people who see the feed later know > it's > > been already fixed and don't waste their time checking to see if it has > been > > fixed. And the feeds would be separate based on the network type. One > for > > all Interstates (this would include the Business Interstates), one for US > > Highways (including the bannered US highways), and one for each of the 50 > > state highway networks. That way, you can then just subscribe to the RSS > > feeds that you'd want to pay attention to only instead of being flooded > with > > updates from every highway system in one feed. > > > > If you guys want, later today, I could do a test US highway in this > setup. > > I would recommend US-48 in WV/VA as it's one of the shorter US Highways > out > > there, plus it mostly a divided highway in WV as it's been built that way > > and I think it's completely un-divided in VA. > > > > Also, on a side note, do you guys think we should remove the "symbol" > tags > > in the relations from all the Interstates/US highways they show up in at > the > > same time? > > > > So, let's get this discussion going! > > > > -James (rickmastfan67) > > > > [1] - http://ra.osmsurround.org/analyzeRelation?relationId=455420 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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