[Talk-us] [Warning: Potential Flamewar] Clarifying Interstate Relations

Chris Hunter chunter952 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 14 04:31:30 GMT 2010


Yes, I know it's arguably tagging for the renderer, but can someone else
update the WIKI to explain how mkgmap, mapnik, and osmarender handle the ref
tag?
AFAIK NE2 is tagging for the editor in this case.

Thanks,
Chris Hunter
DiverCTH

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>wrote:

>  On 2/8/10 12:19 AM, Chris Hunter wrote:
>
> I don't think NE2 is on any of these mailing lists.  Can someone put a
> temporary ban on their account?  They've been editing all day.
>
> don't know if you saw this in the interstate relations wiki in the talk
> section but NE2 is about to "fix" the ref tags if he doesn't
> hear from anyone (on the wiki, of course).
>
>    We also need to figure out how best to tag the relations. Following the
> guideline as it is now, every relation for a route will have the same ref
> and no name. This means that in JOSM and Potlatch there's no way to
> distinguish them at a glance. (Yeah, I know, don't tag for the
> <s>renderer</s> editor, but when there's more than one way of doing
> something, we should do what makes our job easier.) --[[User talk:NE2|NE2]]
> 08:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
>     +
>     +
> If nobody replies, I'm going to change it to the following:
>     +
> *name=I 83 (details if not the whole route, such as "I 83 (PA northbound)")
>     +
> *ref=I 83
>     +
> --[[User talk:NE2|NE2]] 14:07, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
>
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