[Talk-us] old_ref_legislative vs. old_ref:legislative

Albert Pundt roadsguy99 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 27 20:07:03 UTC 2017


Shouldn't the tag old_ref_legislative (used primarily in Pennsylvania but
applicable elsewhere) be old_ref:legislative according to current key
naming conventions? According to taginfo, old_ref_legislative
<https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/old_ref_legislative#map> is used by
far mostly in Pennsylvania to mark the pre-1987 legislative numbers, but a
few uses exist in California and England. In all there are over 40,000 uses
of this key. old_ref:legislative
<https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/old_ref:legislative#map> on the
other hand is used only in California, but still with over 18,000 uses.

Does anyone think it might be worth it to attempt to change all the
old_ref_legislative values to old_ref:legislative in line with current
tagging conventions, much like what was already done with the creation of
ref:penndot to replace using ref and penndot_ref for PA's state-owned
routes?

—Albert
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