[Talk-ca] Name or Ref for rural roads

[Corey Burger]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:03 AM,  <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> In the mapping I have be doing so far I have been using the 'name=' tag
> for both rural and city roads.
>
> I am seeing multiple places where a rural road is know by both 'Range Road
> 5-2' and 'Old Airport Road'. How should these be tagged?
>
> It make sense to put 'name=Old Airport Road' and 'ref=Range Road 5-2', but
> the reference would be written in a little box on the way, making a rather
> large little box.....
>
> Also some roads have multiple references.
>
> Can someone please clarify how these should be tagged and update the
> guidelines on the wiki.

To me, a ref is a purely numeric thing, like bus route 11 or highway
3. Thus Range Road 5-2 would be tagged name:2 or vice versa.

Corey