[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

[Phil! Gold]

* Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> [2010-07-19 15:41 -0500]:
> I see at least one highway in Kansas has been tagged with "K-10" - I'm
> guessing most people would consider that flat out wrong?  :)

I suspect that it depends.  Given the way refs are rendered currently, I
don't mind state-localized ref numbers, though I'm sure there are people
would disagree with me.  From what I've seen, the route relations are a
better place to put route information (I think the semicolon separators
are kind of a hack), and the explicit separation of information in the
route relations makes it easier to process them.

In short, I'm okay seeing "ref=K-10" on a road, because that's how people
refer to them, and because I'd prefer to be pulling information out of a
relation tagged route=road, network=US:KS, ref=10.  (Mind you, I still
haven't found a good way to actually do that and have it work correctly in
terms of rendering; it's just what I want.)

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