[Talk-us] Interstate name tag
Alex S.
maps at swavely.com
Tue Jul 15 05:23:46 BST 2008
Victor Snesarev wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just want to get people's opinion on naming Intestate Highways in the
> US... The Wiki says
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/United_States_roads_tagging> to
> set "name" as "Interstate Highway ###". In practice I mostly see
> "I-###". Since interstates are divided into two oneway ways, I think
> each way should be named "I-### Direction", where "Direction" is "East",
> "West", "North", "South". So, one way of the interstate would be "I-40
> East" and the other is "I-40 West". Both ways would have "ref=I 40".
>
> I know some editors already use this scheme. I got the idea from a link
> provided by Alex Mauer.
>
> Thoughts?
I do name="Interstate x Northbound" and ref="Ix N".
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