[Talk-us] State ref tags on ways

[Richard Welty]

On 3/10/14 11:07 PM, James Mast wrote:
> I know that in some states that we don't add the state abbreviation (and use 'SR' or 'SH'), and other states we don't add anything at all expect just the number.
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> I'm just curious if anybody thinks we should try to get them all standardized on the ways.  For instance, we should start adding the 'FL' part to ways in Florida when we edit them since right now, all we have is just the number.  I personally would love to see 'FL' in the ref tags properly as I think the main reason that one Florida user didn't add them (and maybe kept removing them if added by any other user) was to make the ref tags render in Mapnik if there was more than one route on the highway.  And as we do know, tagging for the renderer is frowned upon.
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> Now, I know we do want to move to using just relations to render the shields in the future, but as of right now, we still need to keep both ways working together.  So, I thought we should just hase this out again so we can attempt to get each state on the same page if possible.
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i would personally like to seem some consistency but i kind of
stopped trying to advocate the position a while ago. it didn't seem
like agreement was terribly likely and it was better to just continue
to press on with building proper route relations.

richard

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