[Talk-us] REF tags for State Highways on ways

[Nathan Mills]

 On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:11:49 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> On 4/8/2011 2:00 PM, James Mast wrote:
>> I just thought I would throw this out there so this can be settled 
>> once
>> and for all. Which ref tag setup do you think should be used for 
>> State
>> Highways on ways (not relations)? "PA-44" or "44".
> There's a third way: use the correct abbreviation. So Florida, if a
> prefix is used, would have SR, not FL. Pennsylvania, on the other
> hand, would use PA.

 IMO, the state's postal abbreviation followed by the route number 
 should be used. This makes them easily distinguished from US or other 
 route refs. You can't always go by the state the road is in. For 
 example, in NE Oklahoma and NW Arkansas, AR-42 and OK-20 are cosigned 
 along a way that runs along the border and is part of both state's 
 highway network. In fact, some of the road is completely in Oklahoma yet 
 is still cosigned AR-42.

 I think ref=OK 20;AR 42 (or equally ref=AR 42;OK 20) is the appropriate 
 tag there.

 The "SR" naming leads to ambiguity as to which state's route number is 
 being referenced.