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

[Richard Weait]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

Nah, shields on ways is fine for a single way / single network.  The
overlapping / co-signed networks want relations and I've been
rendering them for months.

No reason everybody else can't as well.  I'm not expecting highway
shields to appear on a layer on osm.org, though.  Shields are too
specific to North America.

And tagging?

ref=number portion only
network=countrycode_statecode_[location details as required]networkcode_variant

Interstate 95. ref=95; network=us_i
US 66 historic. ref=66; network=us_us_historic
York Regional Road 8. ref=8; network=ca_on_york