Thanks for all the feedback, especially from Kevin. I will create road route relations as suggested, as I come across them.
--- On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 18:35:28 -0700, Mark Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
