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

[Richard Welty]

On 4/8/11 4:50 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> On 4/8/2011 4:46 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>> On 4/8/11 4:26 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>>> Do you have an example of that outside my first few months of editing?
>> this changeset:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5223229
>>
>> from 7/2010, in which the ref tag for
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/48124268
>>
>> was changed to 9H;23 is an example. the others i've looked at are also
>> from that period. maybe that was in your first few months, but i thought
>> you'd been mapping longer than that.
>
> Oh yes, I have changed from the horrible "US:[state] [number]" format. 
> There's no reason to put the country name in the ref tag.
well, yes, i change those when i notice them, but within NY, you ought
to be changing them to NY xx, not xx.

richard