[Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: "get your kicks, where?")

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Alan Mintz
<Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 2011-01-02 19:46, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>
>> On 01/01/2011 11:55 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
>> > I've been adding more highway shields to the shield renderer.  Most
>> > recently I've added a shield for Historic Route 66.
>> >
>> >
>> > http://weait.com:8080/map/shield.html?lat=40.36679&lon=-89.10653&zoom=16&layers=BTF
>
> Cool. Shouldn't the relation be tagged:
>
> network=US:US
> ref=66
> modifier=HISTORIC
>
> according to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging
> ?

Using the modifier tag for a "banner" seems wrong, as the route
designation is e.g. 30 Business, not 30. It's a little more iffy for a
historic route.
>
> Also, is it now "correct" to not tag (network, ref) the individual ways that
> are part of a route relation? What about name? Is it "correct" to remove
> those existing tags from the ways (and ensure they are on the relation)? I'm
> not talking about a large-scale bot update, but "as long as I'm editing them
> for some other reason anyway".

No, it's not correct to remove refs from ways.