[Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

[James Mast]

Well Kevin,

Well, it seems that the edits from 'OntarioEditor' along the entire 405 were missed and still have the 'ON' in the ref tag on the ways.

As for the new user doing it, it's 'North American Highways'.  I sent him both a PM and a comment on a changeset [1] directing him here to the mailing list.  Hopefully he'll respond back to me or post here.  For all I know, he could be the same user above with a new account as he added the 'ON' back to the ref tag on the 400 [2].  He's also had QEW edits reverted 'TWICE' where he added the 'ON' to the ref tag. [3]

-James

[1] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/31782232 
[2] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4083201/history 
[3] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/67924382/history 

From: kevinfarrugia at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:24:25 -0400
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario
To: jfd553 at hotmail.com
CC: rickmastfan67 at hotmail.com; talk-ca at openstreetmap.org

(Sorry I have to re-email this Daniel - I thought I pressed reply all :P)

It was discussed in February in this thread: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2015-February/006404.html

Andrewpmk
 (almost entirely him) and I reversed all of the ON prefixes to the 
400-Series highways, but provincial highways and regional/county roads 
still retain their prefixes.  Personally I don't think there should be 
any prefix for rendering or navigation purposes, but I guess it depends 
on whether you think county or regional road prefixes should be there 
for navigation or rendering purposes.
-Kevin (Kevo)-Kevin Farrugia
kevinfarrugia at gmail.com

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Daniel Begin <jfd553 at hotmail.com> wrote:
AFAIK, it has never been discussed at least on this forum. I consider it as an error or even vandalism since it does not conform to acceptable rules (1) A similar behavior has been seen a couple of months ago where user:OntarioEditor added a prefix to ref tag for most primary/secondary roads in Quebec. I contacted him but never had an answer. The question was asked on this list by another user about such behavior. Unfortunately, I did not see any specific answer and his/her edits are still all over the place. Someone has more information? Comments? Daniel    (1) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct From: James Mast [mailto:rickmastfan67 at hotmail.com] 
Sent: June-25-15 23:56
To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario I've been noticing that a user has been adding the prefix of 'ON' to the ref tags on ways recently in Ontario.  Are you starting to do that now, or is this user in error with the current tagging practices?

-James
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