[Talk-us] County road network relations

[Phil! Gold]

* Nathan Mills <nathan at nwacg.net> [2011-04-10 19:22 -0500]:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:14:18 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> >How about simply network=US:CA:CR?
> 
> That's all well and good for California, but what about states like
> Arkansas (and Florida, IIRC) where the county road system is not
> unique to the entire state.

In my opinion, there's too much variation in how each state organizes and
numbers its state-and-lower roads to make a uniform, US-wide rule.  I
would say that state highways should be network=US:ST (where "ST" is the
two-letter state abbreviation), and anything further (county roads,
Pennsylvania's primary and secondary state roads, California's
multi-county roads, etc.) would be US:ST:<whatever>, where the
"<whatever>" is up to the mappers in that state (and, hopefully,
documented on that state's page on the wiki).

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