[Talk-us] Marion and Lane County, Oregon county roads

[Paul Johnson]

I'm aware that some counties do, in fact, signpost roads, but at least at
the time I was a regular in the Marion/Lane/Benton county area (2006-2009),
those counties did not signpost county route numbers.  Only Marion County
even signposted that you were entering a Marion County highway.  "Welcome
to the Marion County Highway System" inbound at the county line would be
the only sign.  County roads in Oregon, are by and large, named only.
 Hence asking if something changed in the last 3-4 years.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>wrote:

> On 23:48 2013-12-01, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> Looking at Marion and Lane Counties in Oregon, I'm wondering what the
>> source material is for much of the references, since I'm not familiar
>> with any county road numbers in either of those counties (or for that
>> matter, anywhere else in Oregon, and would consider any county road ref
>> tagging suspicious).  Unless this is a new thing (post ~2009), I'm
>> thinking these are not prominently posted and fall under the category of
>> what's not presently considered proper tagging (given that I was
>> chastised for tagging Oregon State Route 99W's member ways as OR 1W in
>> the relation of Oregon State Route 99W, which would be accurate based on
>> maintenance signage, but not as meets commonly accepted OSM standards).
>>   As far as I'm aware, based on over 25 years of living and traveling in
>> Oregon ending in roughly 2010, no Oregon county prominently marks county
>> reference numbers, which would make the vast majority, if not all, of
>> the county route numbers in Oregon on ways invalid under the current
>> tagging scheme (even if technically correct).
>>
>> Could someone with more recent knowledge of the Marion County and Lane
>> County highway systems take a look and make a call on this?
>>
>> I'm not against tagging county and state roads properly, though the
>> currently accepted scheme breaks Oregon badly (since ways might belong
>> to a state highway that don't correspond to the state route number, and
>> not all state highways have state route numbers, such as service roads
>> in a state park).
>>
>
> According to <http://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=6940.0>, some
> Oregon counties do signpost county routes. I recently traveled up I-5 from
> California to Eugene and saw some of them from a distance along the way.
> But I have no idea whether they correspond to reference numbers or some
> other system. And for all I know they could've been posted by the local
> roadgeeks. ;-)
>
> Is it possible that these route relations were converted from
> `name_1=County Route 123` tags in TIGER ways? TIGER data in Ohio is
> littered with such tags, and I've been converting them into relations in
> counties that are known to signpost county routes.
>
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> minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
>
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