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

[Nathan Mills]

 Before I was too swamped with other stuff to do much OSM work, I was 
 using "AR XX" and "OK XX". We've had this discussion before, though. My 
 contention is and was  that the state prefix is necessary because there 
 are cases of ways belonging to two different networks "in" (not 
 physically, but logically) two different states.

 NE2's reasoning here is suspect, anyway. AHTD refers to highways using 
 the bare number on their road conditions page. (except for interstates, 
 which get an "I-" prefix)

 I'd go on a long rant about how annoying it is that certain people feel 
 like they know better than locals how things should be tagged, but we've 
 been down that road before and nothing good comes of it.

 On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:04:26 +0200, Henk Hoff 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
> [1]
>
> 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
> [2]
>  
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.015&lon=-93.4598&zoom=13&layers=M
> [3]
>
> Ive 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 thats not
> what the routes are actually called".
>
> Well, Im not convinced. Apparently these website also have it wrong
> according to NE2:
>  http://www.magnoliachamber.com/community/transportation.php [4]
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Highway_29 [5]
>
> So, what is our (OSM) standard? Do we want to ref-label Arkansas 
> State
> Highway 27 as AR 27 or Hwy 27?
>
> Cheers,
> Henk
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1]
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#State_Highways
> [2]
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.4239|+|amp|+|lon=-93.0561|+|amp|+|zoom=13|+|amp|+|layers=M
> [3]
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.015|+|amp|+|lon=-93.4598|+|amp|+|zoom=13|+|amp|+|layers=M
> [4] http://www.magnoliachamber.com/community/transportation.php
> [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Highway_29