[Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

[Henk Hoff]

Hi all,

To my understanding our tagging-standard for State Highways is [STATE]
[NUMBER]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#State_Highways

User Nathan Edgars is now changing all State Highway ref-tags in Arkansas
from AR ## to Hwy ##
Examples:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.4239&lon=-93.0561&zoom=13&layers=M
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.015&lon=-93.4598&zoom=13&layers=M

I've had contact with NE2 about this, and he basicly responds that the
Arkansas Highway Department calls them Highway ### (or Hwy ###) and that is
how we should tag them. And not AR ###, "because that's not what the routes
are actually called".

Well, I'm not convinced. Apparently these website also have it wrong
according to NE2:
http://www.magnoliachamber.com/community/transportation.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Highway_29

So, what is our (OSM) standard? Do we want to ref-label Arkansas State
Highway 27 as AR 27 or Hwy 27?

Cheers,
Henk
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