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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/12/12 11:24 PM, Paul Johnson
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Richard
Welty <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>what i recall is that NE2 likes the appearance of
bare route numbers and most of his ref</div>
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tags have no prefix at all (see FL, PA, NJ among other
states where he did a lot of this.)<br>
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this was, of course, tagging for a particular mapnik
rendering appearance. make your<br>
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<div>In his defence, he did just edit I 44 through my area, and
the only tagging difference on ref=* (several tags were
edited) was removal of a space in ref=I 44; OK 66 to be ref=I
44;OK 66 (and sacking is_in). Not entirely clear what the
ultimate goal of the changeset was, but I didn't really see
anything overtly wrong with it so I let it go.</div>
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what i didn't say (and should have) was that he only does bare route
numbers for state<br>
routes.<br>
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as a software person, i dislike inconsistency in representations
(prefixes vs no prefixes),<br>
but because there aren't strong controls over how ref tags are
edited, it's something that<br>
has to be lived with, and code simply has to be robust enough to not
break when<br>
presented with such things.<br>
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i personally am slightly neutral on the nature of the state prefix.
in NY, using the postal<br>
prefix makes lots of sense as everyone in this state knows exactly
what you're referring<br>
to. but i grew up in Florida, and the SR prefix is the norm when
referring to state highways<br>
there. MI and TX are unique of course, as others have posted in this
thread. i don't know<br>
that a truly consistent US-wide concensus is actually achievable.<br>
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i think i feel a longer essay about tagging (and what we're tagging
for) coming on, but i'm<br>
not going to write it tonight.<br>
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richard<br>
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