[Talk-us] User going around adding '-' to ref tags in Michigan

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Fri Sep 26 19:22:49 UTC 2014


Yeah, the consensus on the lists was to always use the postal abbreviation
for the state.  Kansas and Colorado also tend to refer on the signs to "C
149" or "K 66" but are generally tagged CO 149 or KS 66...

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This has probably come up in the past, but Michigan's state highways are
> signed and referred to as "M ##"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Michigan_Highways
>
> It's also mentioned on
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Michigan/Highway_Relations, which
> differentiates between the network abbreviations and way refs
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>
>> Also sounds like M-3, M-10, etc should probably be tagged MI 3, MI 10...
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:11 PM, James Mast <rickmastfan67 at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  Just thought I'd give you guys a heads up, but there is a user going
>>> around and adding '-' to all the ref tags he modifies in Michigan.
>>>
>>> A good example would be a good chunk of I-75 [1], I-96, M-3, M-10 in
>>> Metro Detroit.  But he's done it elsewhere in Michigan.
>>>
>>> I sent him a PM earlier mentioning this as a 'FYI' that we don't add the
>>> '-' to the ref tags.  Hopefully he'll respond.  Otherwise, this might be a
>>> massive cleanup.  Anybody else want to try and get a hold of this user as
>>> well?  I have also noticed that in some places where he has 'tweaked' the
>>> ref tags, others have done some 'reverting' work already putting them back
>>> to the normal standard. [2]
>>>
>>> -James
>>>
>>> [1] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8767860/history
>>> [2] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17729896/history
>>>
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