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

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 4/9/2011 1:52 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On 04/08/2011 03:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>> On 4/8/2011 3:58 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>>> i know NE2 likes to make the prefix go away for state ref tags
>>
>> For Florida, yes, since that's the statewide standard. For other states,
>> I usually don't tag without a prefix. I certainly don't "make it go
>> away" en masse.
>
> For consistency with the rest of the country, would you mind using the
> state abbreviation?  A number by itself is ambiguous if you're not using
> relations (and thus have a network tag for that information).

Almost anything is ambiguous worldwide. Does DE mean Delaware or 
Germany? Does CO mean Colorado or county? For that matter, which county 
does CR mean? There's certainly no local ambiguity in Florida, 
especially since every state road is in a relation.