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

[Phil! Gold]

* Mike N. <niceman at att.net> [2011-01-04 06:58 -0500]:
> >>No, it's not correct to remove refs from ways.
> >
> >I really would like to hear wider input on this
> 
>  I agree - it's premature to redefine the usage of ref until a
> number of renderers are getting route information from other sources
> such as the relation.

I also agree with NE2.  The current OSM standard is to look at way refs to
get the routes they belong to.

> [ Whatever happened to the discussion on "highway tagging
> consensus"?  Is it happening on the Wiki now?   I thought there was
> enough information to move toward a consensus but I couldn't follow
> it all on mailing list messages. ]

There was rough consensus that the current approach is more or less right,
but disagreement on several specifics.  Richard Weait suggested that
further discussion probably wouldn't accomplish much without a sample
implementation, so I've (in my copious free time, sigh) been working on
some improvements to the rendering chain, including some modifications to
osm2pgsql.  I'm not sure when I'll have something reasonably complete, but
once I do, I plan to start the discussion again with my code as a
reference point.

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