[Talk-ca] Road route relations: network tag

[Martijn van Exel]

It's not documented that way anywhere that I could find. The colon notation
is. Based on the other comments and the documented standards we started
editing based on the spreadsheet.

Martijn

Martijn van Exel
http://mvexel.github.io/

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> On 10/27/2016 3:04 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>
>>
>> My mapping colleagues (not me, I only map in my spare time :)) noted that
>> there are some irregular network tags on highways in Canada. The usual
>> hierarchical notation[1] is in place in many relations, but we encountered
>> deviations from that where instead of the colon separator an underscore is
>> used, so for example instead of CA:ON we see ca_on, and some variations on
>> that.
>>
>
> ca_... has been the long-standing standard. When I last looked at it, the
> US was the main user of colons. It's possible this has changed, but
> ca_on_county is still one of the most frequent network tag values (
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/network=ca_on_county), and there
> may be consumers who expect this.
>
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