On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 21:45:19 +0900 [email protected] wrote: > Newby here. > > Started mapping an area of the Idaho panhandle around the Kootenai > river. I notice that currently minor roads have a "County Road nn" > name but TIGER2019 data also has names such as "Acacia Avenue". I > think most map users would want to use the "Acacia Avenue" name as it > what would be listed in postal addresses and they'd want to search it > in applications such as OSMand. Question is how to handle this. Also, > what to set the "ref" to for county roads. > > There's not much information on the roads tagging page: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#Individual_states_2 > > Proposal: use alt_name for "County Road nn" and name for "Acacia > Avenue" where a name is given. (I've seen name_1 used but this is not > really a "standard" OSM tag, AFAIK.) > > For ref: set the ref to the county road number until someone can come > up with a better proposal... > > Any Idahoans have any information?
Not an Idahoan, but I've driven in the area from time to time. The roads I'm familiar with don't have a "County Road" designation on the sign, just the road name. -- Mark _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
