[Talk-us] County road network relations

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Mon Apr 11 19:05:21 BST 2011


On 4/11/11 1:47 PM, Phil! Gold wrote:
> * 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).
>
yes.

for the California situation, i think there's an obvious answer, as
the tertiary network appears to be divided into lettered groups:

network=US:CA:A
...

don't attempt to represent the counties, the state has already
defined the "networks" for the tertiaries.

richard




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