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

[Katie Filbert]

On Aug 20, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> "On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Henk Hoff <toffehoff at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> 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 NE[2|3] is now changing all State Highway ref-tags in Arkansastalk-us at openstreetmap.org
>> 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
>
> Hi Henk!
>
> Getting ready for your road trip to SotM, I see.  ;-)
>
> What the local and state authorities call a road is interesting but
> fails to consider our broader, global naming concerns.
>
> network= describes the highway network
> ref= distinct reference within that network
>
> In this case network="US_AR_AR"  Historically, network="US:AR:AR" has
> been used but _ is better.
>
> ref="123" is correct.

I agree with putting just the number there.

Let the renderers handle whatever abbreviations and whatnot.

Cheers,
Katie


>
> ref="Hwy 123" is incorrect.  The "Hwy" portion of "Hwy ##" adds no
> actionable information for OpenStreetMap.  "##" is better.
>
> ref="AR 123" is incorrect. AR duplicates information from the  
> network tag.
>
> ref="SR 123" is incorrect.  SR is ambiguous and duplicates information
> from the network tag.
>
> Best regards,
> Richard
>
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