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

[Richard Welty]

On 7/19/10 3:52 PM, Phil! Gold wrote:
> * Alex Mauer<hawke at hawkesnest.net>  [2010-07-19 14:23 -0500]:
>    
>> The wiki says[1] that refs should include US:[two-letter state
>> abbreviation].  That should make it pretty simple.
>>      
> The wiki says that's optional, and in my experience no one does it
> (probably because it looks horrid with the current rendering).
>    
in upstate NY, it's been done both ways.
> The wiki also explicitly says that you should use the two-character postal
> abbreviation for the state the road is in, but that seems to have been
> disregarded in states where a different prefix (like SR) is normally
> used.  (To be fair, there's a lot of other stuff people have done with the
> ref tags on state roads, including not having any network identifiers and
> putting the number in parentheses.)
>
>    
and we should work towards a consistent system; i understand the notion of
local convention and all that, but it makes rendering a living hell.

richard