However, a given administrative area may well contain country-level, state-level, and county roads. If a given road is tagged with only a number, what indicates which one of these is meant? Also, it is not unusual for a stretch of physical roadway to be considered part of both a country-level road and a state-level road, etc.
-- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: John Smith <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 03:30:46 To: Mike N<[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Help! Changeset reverted without explanation On 1 March 2010 03:17, Mike N <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a good argument to omitting the state abbreviation from the > ref? Will the end result of changing to just a number be usable by the > "Highway Shields" project? The common reference "County road 49" comes to You can use admin boundaries to derive country, state, and county information. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
