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

[Richard Welty]

On 8/20/11 7:52 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Henk Hoff<toffehoff at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> To my understanding our tagging-standard for State Highways is [STATE]
>> [NUMBER]
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#State_Highways
> I agree that we should use the standard 2-letter state abbreviation
> and then the number: "AK 7"
>
i concur, the postal abbreviation method is is really clear and obvious.
> Also, for some reason in Massachusetts, most of the roads were
> imported using "SR" instead of "MA".  I think I changed some near the
> New Hampshire border to MA and then someone changed them back, but I
> never followed up.
>
in some states (MA and FL come to mind) state highways are frequently
referred to as "State Routes", or SR, on maps and in general conversation.

richard