<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Chris,<br><br>Good suggestion using operator=AASHTO. I decided to go with network=ncn, operator=AASHTO<br><br>Spencer<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Chris Lawrence <lordsutch@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Spencer Riddile <riddile_spencer@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:12:23 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Talk-us] U.S. Bike Route 76<br></font><br>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Spencer Riddile<br><<a ymailto="mailto:riddile_spencer@yahoo.com" href="mailto:riddile_spencer@yahoo.com">riddile_spencer@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> What would the advantage/disadvantage be of using a different network name<br>> ("usbrs" vs. "ncn") for U.S. bike routes. The author of open cycle map<br>> would have to adjust their symbolization if we started using "usbrs". Is it<br>> good to try to keep some international standard even though trail and route<br>> systems may be different in various ways.<br><br>The advantage is that "ncn" isn't the name of the U.S. bike route<br>system ;-). Or, less glibly, the US Bike Route System isn't part of<br>the UK National Cycle Network.<br><br>But if other countries' mappers have also adopted ncn for their<br>top-level bike networks then the cart has already left the barn on<br>that, so it's not too important. It just means that a
programmatic<br>tool that extracts bike networks for a particular country from the OSM<br>data is going to have to be smarter than simply looking at the network<br>tag.<br><br>Using e.g. operator=usbrs or operator=AASHTO (AASHTO designates the US<br>bike route system) along with network=ncn would probably be the next<br>best thing.<br><br><br>Chris<br></div></div></div></body></html>