On Friday, December 21, 2012, Clay Smalley wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>In Texas, every business route has a unique letter attached to it. In this image from TxDOT, there are a few examples: <a href="http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/fsh/images/Figure%204-2.gif" target="_blank">http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/fsh/images/Figure%204-2.gif</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>These are what show on the vast majority of highway signs. They are useful for navigation, and and official designation used by TxDOT for identifying which city a business route runs through.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A while back, I took the liberty of adding these letters to the ref=* tags of these business routes, as well as their relations, to reflect this (e.g. ref="US 377A Business" in the example).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Along came an armchair retagger from outside of Texas.</div><div><br></div><div>First he claimed that they're not part of the official route number, which is not true according to TxDOT's highway designation files, which are freely available and easily accessible online.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So it sounds like you know the ground truth, and have done your homework. Good job.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>But my main problem came when he started removing them without notice whenever he made an edit to any of these ways.</div><div><br></div><div>He also made a point that I 35E Business which goes through the town of Pearsall, Texas is not a business route of the I 35E that goes through Dallas. That made sense to me, so I'm going through and retagging all the business routes with hyphenation (e.g. ref="US 377-A Business"). But he seemed to still have a problem with the business letters existing in the data.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What sayest thou, community? I'm honestly tired of edit wars and pointless bickering, and would rather just get this question out of the way.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sounds like yet another problem brought to us by the letters N and E, and the number 2... </div>