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

[Paul Johnson]

On 01/03/2011 09:52 AM, Alan Mintz 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

Technically, probably shouldn't exist, since US-66 hasn't existed since
sometime in the late 1980s and it's using the recreational brown signs
today.  Given the number of times US-66's route has changed, I'm not
sure it even makes sense to use relations for this without qualifying
the era.

> according to
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging ?
> 
> Also, is it now "correct" to not tag (network, ref) the individual way
> 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".
> 
> 
>> Eh, OK-66 and Old US-66 and USBR-66 are all in my neighborhood.
> 
> What is USBR-66?

US Bike Route.  I'm thinking Oklahoma jumped the gun on posting it as
such since as far as I can tell, only 1 and 76 exist so far in that
network (and Oklahoma's not even using the right signs for that).

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