[Talk-us] Texas business route letter subscripts, or how I learned to stop arguing and ignore a certain user

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Sun Dec 23 03:59:34 GMT 2012


On 12/22/12 10:39 PM, James Mast wrote:
> I personally think that the letter shouldn't be stored in the "ref" tags on the ways as they could be considered as an internal designation that just happens to make it onto the route shields.  Maybe the letters could be added as an additional tag like "ref:txdot=I 35-V"?  They are so small that nobody but the roadgeeks are really going to notice or pay attention to them to be honest.  I mean, do people in Texas really say "take the next right @ I-35-V Business"?
you can argue about what the ref tags should contain. as a practical 
matter, data consumers frequently assume that what's in the ref tag (on 
a way, different from ref tag on a route relation) can be rendered as is 
as the text on the highway shield. we need to accept that this is what 
it is and confine the ref tag to those things that are reasonably 
observable by the average motorist. this is why i am hostile, for 
example, to putting NYS reference routes in the ref tag, except for 
those four cases where the reference routes got actual NYS highway 
shields (for the most part, NYS reference route numbers are invisible to 
the normal driver.)

richard




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