[Talk-us] Clarke County, Mississippi, county road signs and OSM name tags

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Tue Aug 14 19:13:52 UTC 2018


I'm referring to when ref tagging on a way, which yes, is dinosaur tagging
obsoleted the moment route relations became a thing.  On a relation, I
could go either way on the relation being named, network would be
US:MS:Clarke and the ref would be 123 in this example.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 14:08 Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:35 PM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> >
> > Just ref=CR 123.  The name should not be redundant to the ref, so if
> it's signed as Clark Co. 123 and that's it, then add noname=yes as well.
> The name is only the name, name is not ref.
>
> I'm fine with an unnamed way having just a ref - I can go either way
> on that one - but please don't do a ref without a network! (And please
> put ref and network on a relation, so that people developing shield
> rendering code stay sane.)
>
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