[Talk-us] Route Relation Nitpicking

[Richard Welty]

On 6/16/10 11:51 PM, Zeke Farwell wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net 
> <mailto:rwelty at averillpark.net>> wrote:
>
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>     7 instead of US 7, NY 7, (7), etc.
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> Yes.  Thank You.  I've never liked putting network prefixes in the ref 
> tag.  The reference number for United States Highway 7 is simply "7" 
> not "US 7".  No one calls it US 7 either.  Just "7", or "route 7".  I 
> understand that before relations existed the prefixes were necessary. 
>  But now that we do have relations ref=7 network=US:US, and ref=7 
> network=US:NY should work just fine.  Clean and simple.
i think the rendered pseudo-shields probably need to show some reference 
to the network
the highway is in, otherwise you'd not know what kind of shield you're 
looking for. that
can be US for US highways, the 2 letter state code for state highways. 
what to do for
county routes will require some thought/discussion; i like the notion of
US:<state>:<county name> in the network tags as was recently proposed, but i
think a ref tag of "Schenectady 9" is awfully long and
not completely obvious, where as most would know what "CR 9"  is about.

while renderers on computers have some (faint) hope of someday doing
proper graphical representations of shields, it seems pretty damned
unlikely that anyone's tomtom or garmin will be doing that anytime
soon.

richard

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