[Talk-GB] C roads

[Steve Doerr]

On 18/05/2011 11:03, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> I note an increasing number of roads tagged with ref=C<number>:
>
>     http://osm.org/go/euF7qf93-
>     http://osm.org/go/eu6CM0IS-
>     etc.
>
> Leaving aside for now the question of sourcing, I feel a little uneasy 
> about these being rendered on the map. Anyone using the map as, well, 
> a navigational aid will think "turn left onto the C94... oh... hang 
> on... what C94?".
>
> So if we are to have such arcana in the database, and experience 
> suggests you can't actually stop people adding arcana to OSM (I guess 
> that's one of our strengths ;) ), it would be helpful to have some way 
> of tagging "this ref is not actually signed". That way, renderers and 
> routers could choose not to show refs which aren't helpful for their 
> audience. Something like ref:signed=no would work.
>

I expressed similar concerns back in March 2010: 
<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2010-March/008852.html>. 
I didn't get any particular support for my point of view, and I've since 
become an enthusiastic tagger of C-roads.

-- 
Steve