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

[Toby Murray]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Henk Hoff <toffehoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Val Kartchner <val42k at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> And once we set "our" standard here in the US, how do we get it adopted
>>> world-wide?
>>>
>>> - Val -
>>>
>>
>> We're not here to dictate what the rest of the world needs to do. It's about
>> uniformity within a country. Otherwise you're just getting goofy maps (as
>> indicated before)
>> Let's first set a standard for the USA and stick to it.
>
> +1, this is just for the US, no need for a universal standard for the ref tag.

Yeah I don't feel like we need to solve the world's problems. The US
has a big enough road network that as long as we come up with a
sensible tagging scheme and stick to it for the whole country, I don't
really care what other countries do. It is obvious that the US has
many "special considerations" dealing with signed routes (like
co-signed routes) that most other countries just don't have to deal
with because their highway system is simpler. All I'm after in this
case is data consistency for the US. Maybe we can sit down over a beer
at SoTM next month and fix this once and for all? :)

I still see a lot of messages coming through about a network tag. This
tag is already used on route relations so I'm not sure why it is still
being discussed. The ref=* tag on ways is primarily just duplicating
data from the relation and tagging for the renderer anyway because
most current renderers don't use route relations.

Toby