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

Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metcalf at state.ma.us
Sat Aug 20 18:29:59 BST 2011


We don't deal with other states so we don't distinguish so in a international contect you'd need to add more detail 
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---Original Message---
From: "Nathan Edgars II" <neroute2 at gmail.com>
Sent: 8/20/2011 12:47 pm
To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

On 8/20/2011 12:42 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote:
> It doesn't matter if a state like MA uses SR internally we just use that because we deal with only one states routes.  Postal code prefixes for all routes makes the most sense.

So how do you distinguish California from Canada? Or Delaware from Germany?

And do you support putting an abbreviation of the county name in the ref 
tag for a county route? Or are those fine with the "ambiguous" CR?

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