<div dir="auto">These unsigned reference route numbers probably should use the unsigned_ref=* tag. Seems like the best compromise.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Evin (compdude)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 29, 2017 6:24 PM, "Richard Welty" <<a href="mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net">rwelty@averillpark.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">i have spotted what appears to be an armchair mapper making an inappropriate<br>
set of edits to some NYS routes this past summer; i have sent the mapper<br>
a note<br>
through the OSM message system but thought this could use a broader<br>
audience,<br>
so that certain inappropriate ref tag settings _don't_ get made.<br>
<br>
NY state has a not-quite-secret route numbering system called reference<br>
routes.<br>
these routes have numbers in the 900 range, and have a single character<br>
suffix.<br>
Examples are 910F, 914V and so forth and so on.<br>
<br>
these route numbers never, with 4 well documented exceptions, _never_<br>
appear on<br>
conventional highway signage (the exceptions are 961F, 962J, 990L and 990V).<br>
<br>
an example of incorrectly setting a ref tag to 910F is here:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/68519517" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>way/68519517</a><br>
<br>
there are no black-and-white NYS route signs carrying the number 910F, so<br>
convention dictates that if these designations are to be tagged at all, it<br>
should be in unsigned_ref or other similar tag.<br>
<br>
i haven't heard back from the mapper who added these yet, but am giving it<br>
a little more time before i go and fix this up myself.<br>
<br>
so anyway, it's fun to learn about things like this numbering system, but<br>
please don't screw up the map by putting these numbers in the ref tags.<br>
they don't belong there.<br>
<br>
for anyone who cares, the entire list of these numbers appears here:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reference_routes_in_New_York" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>List_of_reference_routes_in_<wbr>New_York</a><br>
<br>
richard<br>
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