[Talk-us] State highway refs (was Re: New I.D Feature)

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com> wrote:

> Shouldn't the wording on the "blade sign" be tagged by name=*?


Names are not refs, no.


> rather than being in the ref tag at all? Around here it is possible for
> one numbered highway to by different names in different places. In rural
> areas and small towns the signs at intersections might have "HWY 49" on
> them and the addresses be of the form "1234 North Highway 49" while in
> bigger towns that same numbered route might have a different name like
> "Center Street" (all made up examples). I hope that the GPS would use the
> value in the name tag rather than the ref tag as the primary way of
> displaying directions, or like OsmAnd, give something like "CA 49 - Center
> Street" by concatenating the value in the ref and name tags.


I believe the correct way to deal with this is the destination sign
relation.
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