[Talk-GB] PRoW Ref tagging when ROW is also a road

[Philip Barnes]

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 14:33 +0100, Gregory wrote:
> 
> 
> On 19 June 2012 14:13, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>         Gregory wrote:
>         > On 19 June 2012 14:07, Richard Fairhurst
>         <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>         
>         >> I use "admin:ref" for refs that are predominantly intended
>         for
>         >> administrative usage, rather than public-facing usage.
>         > Now that sounds like tagging for the renderer.
>         
>         
>         How dare you! :p
>         
>         In road terms, there is a big difference between the "C64" and
>         the
>         "B2018". The former is of no use to man nor beast, unless man
>         or beast
>         happens to work for the County Council. Tell me, what would
>         you think if
>         your satnav suddenly told you "at the next roundabout, take
>         the
>         [unsignposted] C64"?
>         
>         
> I would think, wow OSM data is much more complete than TomTom. (and
> then I'd have to dangerously look at the screen to see which exit it
> was).
> 
> 
> But my GPS could be clever and not tell me unless it's a primary or
> secondary road.
> The Standard/Mapnik rendering shows the C-road ref in a different
> style, instead it could decide not to show those refs at all. I think
> they look a bit messy so I would agree with this style change.
> 
> 
> If man nor beast works at the County Council, who does(I often wonder
> this)?
> 
A neighbouring mapper to me does work for the Council, and his area is
complete with C road numbers.

Phil