[Talk-us] Pennsylvania's quadrant routes

[Paul Johnson]

In that case, it sounds like the penndot blade sign refs are similar to
Oregon's "highways" as opposed to "routes," in which I have to wonder where
the added value is in having these even mapped.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:48 AM, James Mast <rickmastfan67 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, with keeping it as 'ref:penndot', it would allow some of the outside
> cases where the internal route numbers on the primary system have a
> different number on the little white signs.  As an example, take a look at
> PA-380 [1].  It's internal number is SR-400 since 'SR-380' is applied to
> I-380.  This is one of a few cases like this.  Another example like this is
> PA-99 [2] which is officially SR-699 because I-99 has the 'SR-99' number
> (but wasn't always the case as both shared it for awhile till 2008).  Even
> PA-283 is 'SR-300' because I-283 is 'SR-283' [3].  I think there are a few
> other cases like this, but I can't recall them right now, but some of them
> might be split state routes where one half is the base number, and the
> other half another number if there is no chance of them being joined.
>
> -James
>
> [1] - <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_380>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_380
> [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_99
> [3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_283
>
> > To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> > From: minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
> > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:06:14 -0800
> > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Pennsylvania's quadrant routes
> >
> > On 2015-01-16 07:52, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > I'm very much in favor of PA instead of SR for disambiguation purposes.
> >
> > With James' proposal to change `ref` to `ref:penndot` (or something even
> > more explicit like `ref:penndot:quadrant`), there's no need for
> > disambiguation. A prefix of "PA" isn't going to solve the problem of
> > mappers conflating PennDOT's two networks either.
> >
> > --
> > minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
> >
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