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

[Toby Murray]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Jason Straub <straub20 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> As the person that just got done labelling each TX state highway, I'll chime
> in here with some comments.
>
> For the network tag, I think that the labelling should be (country : state
> network : network within the state : subnetwork in state), while the ref is
> JUST the number for that highway.  So:
>
> US:I -> Interstate
> US:I:BUS -> Business Interstate
> US:US -> US Route
> US:US:BUS -> Business US Route
> US:US:ALT:BUS -> Business Alt US Route
> US:TX -> Texas State Highway
> US:TX:FM -> Farm to Market
> US:TX:RM -> Ranch To Market
> US:TX:FM:Bus -> Business Farm to Market
>
> Having been through most of the highways in TX at least, this works for all
> that i've labelled, whether it's still that way or not.  I prefer to have
> the final labels show the state abbreviation and number (TX 10) instead of
> generic state labeling (SH 10) (TX has state highways, not state routes),
> but am willing to work with either.  Once a useful mapping tiling appears
> that uses state shields, this wont matter nearly as much.

Again though, to be clear, the network and "number only" ref tag is on
the *relation* - and again, I don't think this tagging is under
dispute by anyone. On the *way* it looks like you used "TX 10" in the
ref tag which is what the original question in this thread is.

Toby