<div dir="ltr">Be cautious using TIGER data in rural areas. I suspect many of the small counties don't have the resources to send updates to Census. I'd recommend looking at county and state data sources for accurate road names. <div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Clifford</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 6:29 AM <<a href="mailto:tj-osmwiki@lowsnr.net">tj-osmwiki@lowsnr.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Newby here.<br>
<br>
Started mapping an area of the Idaho panhandle around the Kootenai<br>
river. I notice that currently minor roads have a "County Road nn" name<br>
but TIGER2019 data also has names such as "Acacia Avenue". I think most<br>
map users would want to use the "Acacia Avenue" name as it what would be<br>
listed in postal addresses and they'd want to search it in applications<br>
such as OSMand. Question is how to handle this. Also, what to set the<br>
"ref" to for county roads.<br>
<br>
There's not much information on the roads tagging page:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#Individual_states_2" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#Individual_states_2</a><br>
<br>
Proposal: use alt_name for "County Road nn" and name for "Acacia Avenue"<br>
where a name is given. (I've seen name_1 used but this is not really a<br>
"standard" OSM tag, AFAIK.)<br>
<br>
For ref: set the ref to the county road number until someone can come up<br>
with a better proposal...<br>
<br>
Any Idahoans have any information?<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>@osm_washington<br></div><div><a href="https://www.snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">www.snowandsnow.us</a></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>