As Paul said, it depends on the type of road. In Georgia, the signage has been the brown keystone one for roads that mere mortal cars can drive on: https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/HD_cjbQunrGWEQCViX-Now
And the vertical ones with FS on them for people with more advanced vehicles: https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/3Il7nk3S4MuMX9jR_SIQnw And, as I said, their IVR map uses NF for all of them.... --jack On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 3:36 PM Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 14:14 Kevin Broderick <k...@kevinbroderick.com wrote: >> >> Doesn't the Forest Service use FR for "Forest Road" at the reference? I'd >> think that, or NFR to distinguish from state forest roads, would be the more >> appropriate ref, as FS is ambiguous (it doesn't distinguish between a forest >> road and a forest trail). > > > Maybe on visitor brochures, but on signage they get keystone shields for two > digit routes and either a vertical or horizontal rectangle sign (depending on > whether or not motor vehicles are expected to travel) for minor routes, and > the numbers all constitute a single network regardless of if it's a road or a > trail. > > I seem to recall when I lived near a national forest that TIGER and the USGS > would use Forest Service XX when spelling out major routes, and National > Forest Development XXX or NFD XXXX on the minors. > > In either case, most people that travel in or near national forests regularly > will find FS and NFD immediately recognizable. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
