In that case, it sounds like the penndot blade sign refs are similar to Oregon's "highways" as opposed to "routes," in which I have to wonder where the added value is in having these even mapped.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:48 AM, James Mast <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, with keeping it as 'ref:penndot', it would allow some of the outside > cases where the internal route numbers on the primary system have a > different number on the little white signs. As an example, take a look at > PA-380 [1]. It's internal number is SR-400 since 'SR-380' is applied to > I-380. This is one of a few cases like this. Another example like this is > PA-99 [2] which is officially SR-699 because I-99 has the 'SR-99' number > (but wasn't always the case as both shared it for awhile till 2008). Even > PA-283 is 'SR-300' because I-283 is 'SR-283' [3]. I think there are a few > other cases like this, but I can't recall them right now, but some of them > might be split state routes where one half is the base number, and the > other half another number if there is no chance of them being joined. > > -James > > [1] - <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_380> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_380 > [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_99 > [3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_283 > > > To: [email protected] > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:06:14 -0800 > > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Pennsylvania's quadrant routes > > > > On 2015-01-16 07:52, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I'm very much in favor of PA instead of SR for disambiguation purposes. > > > > With James' proposal to change `ref` to `ref:penndot` (or something even > > more explicit like `ref:penndot:quadrant`), there's no need for > > disambiguation. A prefix of "PA" isn't going to solve the problem of > > mappers conflating PennDOT's two networks either. > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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