[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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