[Talk-us] FYI - user going around changing highway refs just to put in the "-" and "/"

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 6/9/2011 3:54 PM, David ``Smith'' wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:08 AM, James Mast <rickmastfan67 at hotmail.com
> <mailto:rickmastfan67 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I just happened to notice this guy tonight was going around and
>     editing the "ref" tags on highways in the US just to replace
>     the space and put in the hyphen.
>
>
> There's actually a sensible reason for this, at least for Interstate
> highways:
> <http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/part2a.htm>
> Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Section 2A.13, guidance
> paragraph 9:
> "When an Interstate route is displayed in text form instead of using the
> route shield, a hyphen should be used for clarity, such as "I-50.""
>
> Of course, this applies to road signs and not maps, but I still count
> this as precedence.  Renderers should ideally tolerate ref tags of the
> form "I-50".

Yes, I think we all recognize that I-x is the common form outside OSM. 
But for whatever reason we've been using I x in OSM for a long time.