<div dir="auto">In Alberta, we use "Highway X". Previously, there's also "Secondary Highway X" that does show on street signs in some municipalities, but it's no longer officially used since primary and secondary highways were merged, though they still got different sign shapes (shield for 1-216, circle for 501-999) and locals would still say highways numbered 501-999 are secondary. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On mapping, at least in most provinces (including mine in Alberta), highway classification tends to have one-to-one correspondence and this is even reflected on the shield that appears on maps using OSM data. For example, for Alberta highways in Magic Earth, primaries and above (that correspond to the 1-216 series) get a shield and secondary (corresponding to 501-999) circles. From that, I think there shouldn't be problem with ambiguity, but as you're pointing out, in places like Ontario, You got outliers such as some regional or county roads that are tagged primary and are former provincial highways. Just like with those south of the border, I think we should experiment with suffixes, unfortunately this comes with problems as Quebec, the Atlantic provinces and the Territories only have numbers in their shields (the same goes with state route signs in most US states and US Route signs except in California, but they attempted to settle with adding those suffixes, i.e. US, state abbrevs, CR/PR, particularly for consistency and rendering, and GMaps also does something similar),.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 5:00 PM Andrew Deng <<a href="mailto:andrewdeng93@yahoo.ca">andrewdeng93@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div><div dir="ltr">I absolutely and completely disagree with this. I am from Ontario so I can only speak for the Ontario context</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">1) Many roads that are designated Highway X do not have any other name, and addresses and posted signs are "Highway X". Or "County Road X", etc. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">2) Some roads that are no longer provincial highways still bear the name of the former provincial highway as its street name, and if it does have a county-level designation, the number is sometimes different. (E.g. Highway 11 in Holland Landing, Ontario is York Regional Road 1).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">3) In the US at least there are prefixes (e.g. <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/I-95,+US-101?entry=gmail&source=g">I-95, US-101</a>, TX-130, CR-XX), which would for some cases make a redundancy with the name. However in Canada, since we do not do prefixes, removing the name would just make it unclear which kind road is it (is it provincial? county?)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:new times,serif;font-size:16px"><div>--</div><div>
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On Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 05:49:38 p.m. EST, Jherome Miguel <<a href="mailto:jheromemiguel@gmail.com" target="_blank">jheromemiguel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="m_4708584971475373036yiv6749801894"><div>Should we be removing or replacing "Highway x" and the like names as redundant with highway number (tagged ref=), as like what is already being done south of the border? I've done this with roads in Alberta, either removing them or replacing them with range/township road numbers where posted (in provinces that follow Dominion land system) or other posted road names, or route names as found in trailblazer signs, but some of those "names" got restored.
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