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

[Richard Weait]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/22/2011 5:20 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Nathan Edgars II<neroute2 at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> But the same problem exists with county routes along county lines. Do you
>>> think the ref tag for a county route should contain a county
>>> abbreviation?
>>
>> No, not the ref tag, the network tag.
>
> Sure, on a relation. But network tags aren't used on ways and don't work
> because of overlaps.

If there is an overlap, then relations are the solution.

If there is no overlap, a single network / ref pair will work just
fine.  Why wouldn't it?  What breaks is multi-values in network / ref
tags.  Don't do that.  We have better ways to do this; relations.