[Talk-us] Tagging of county roads

[Richard Welty]

On 5/25/10 6:25 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
> Exactly what tagging are people using for county roads in the US? I tried
> to answer this by reading the wiki, but it focuses only on the highway=*
> categorization, and not on any actual examples. I also tried searching with
> nominatim*, but came up with roads entitled "County Highway *" and "County
> Road *" without any ref tags.
>
>    
in NY, we're using mostly ref=CR <number> or ref=CH <number> depending 
on who is
doing it, with highway=tertiary

for reasons unknown to me, in some parts of the country ref=(<number>) 
is being used
for county routes, which i find odd and inconsistent. for example, using 
the garmin
maps from mkgmap, you'd end up seeing a banner like

Driving on Road Name Road ((82))

at the top of the display instead of

Driving on Road Name Road (CR 82)

as for state and county, i've been putting those on the relations i 
build for the CRs,
but with addr:state and addr:county which i know aren't really supposed 
to be used
for that. i'd be happy to switch to something else for that.