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

[Alan Mintz]

At 2011-01-04 00:16, Paul Johnson wrote:
>On 01/03/2011 09:52 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:
> > 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.

There seems to have been some sort of co-ordinated effort because we have 
those signs in CA, too. Along much of the route along the San Gabriel 
mountains foothills (Huntington, Alosta, Foothill Blvds), there are these 
signs: 
https://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/DSCQ2464.CA_US66_Historic.small.jpg?attredirects=0 
. The eastern portion of this (from ~San Dimas to San Bernardino) is 
currently CA-66, and may be occasionally signed that way (though I can't 
seem to put my finger on one at the moment).

In Monrovia, they've signed it with the old-style US-66 with a CA on it: 
https://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/DSCQ2440.CA_US66.small.jpg?attredirects=0 
, even though it is not part of CA-66 and US-66 no longer exists.

Glendora actually changed the name of Foothill Blvd to "Route 66" and 
signed it this way: 
https://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/DSCQ2662.Route_66_Street.small.jpg?attredirects=0

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>