<div>Hi All,</div>
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<div>I'm taking my first few tentative steps with this project and I hope to get a GPS soon. However, I have some suggestions, so I hope this isn't something that has been discussed before and I've just missed where the information is. Anyway here goes:
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<div>I think some of this may be applicable to the Cycle Network Project also, but I'm putting it here as it is more general. </div>
<p>I've been adding attributes (labels) to some of the road network in Scotland. I've come across something that I couldn't find an answer for, and I've see examples in the data that, to me, just look wrong. Here is the situation: The A90 runs, more-or-less, from Edinburgh to Aberdeen. At some point it crosses the Firth of Forth. While the A90 is in Edinburgh, it is known for the most part as Queensferry Road. Over the Firth of Forth it is known as the Forth Road Bridge. And I'm sure that in other sections it is know be a more common local name.
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<p>In some countries, like the USA, the situation is more interesting as roads seem to pick up many names and route numbers. Across the EU there is a pan-EU numbering system that seems to be intermittently displayed (certainly in the UK it isn't displayed, although some major routes do have an EU route designation)
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<p>At the moment I've seen an example where a link has a name of "Axxxx Great Kingsway" (or some such thing). I would like to suggest that this would be better split out in to separate attributes (labels?). e.g
. <br> name1 = Queensferry Road<br> route1 = A90 <br> or<br> route1=M9<br> route2=M876 <br>(Apparently the UK's only multiplexed motorway)</p>
<div>The reason I'm using route1, name1, route2, name2, etc. is because from my perspective at the moment the database schema is very flexible and apparently not normalised in the slightest. I'd like the postfix numbers on the column/field/label identifier so that if the data was ever extracted and normalised it would make the job easier.
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<div>Regards,<br>Colin.</div>