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

[Toby Murray]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Craig Hinners <craig at hinnerspace.com> wrote:
> Of course, it would be desirable to have consensus on the syntax of the
> conceptual-level tag, be it "highway:network:us:fl=123", or
> "highway:network=us:fl:123", or "highway=fl:123", but that's a
> diversion from the crux of the issue, which is the overloaded use of
> the "ref" tag.

This explicitly split out network information should be present in
route relations. The ref=* tag on ways right now is mostly "tagging
for the renderer" because current renderers don't use route relations.

Richard Weait has done some work on this:

http://weait.com/content/badges-badges
and
http://weait.com:8080/map/shield.html?lat=40.36679&lon=-89.10653&zoom=16&layers=BTF

Toby