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

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 8/20/2011 1:29 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote:
> From: "Nathan Edgars II"<neroute2 at gmail.com>
>> 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?

 > We don't deal with other states so we don't distinguish so in a 
international contect you'd need to add more detail

Meaning? How would you add more detail? US:MA:2? US:FL:ORA:535? UK:GB:M1?