<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Mike Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miketho16@gmail.com" target="_blank">miketho16@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Thomas Colson <</span><a href="mailto:thomas_colson@nps.gov" target="_blank">thomas_colson@nps.gov</a><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">> wrote:</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">> Is there a preferred tagging for mile-markers? E.g. a wooden/concrete post</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">> in the ground with the mile # on it;</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></span></div>highway=milestone?<div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmilestone" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmilestone</a></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thomas, I'd caution against placing nodes every mile and tagging them highway=milestone unless there's something more notable about them. Mile markers could be computed from the length of the way and all the extra data might not be useful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Happy to hear others' opinions on this, though. My opinion was formed several years ago when we talked about mile markers next to interstates (and I can't find a link to it...).</div><div><br>
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<div>-Ian</div></div></div></div>