[Talk-us] National Forest refs/names

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Quick question for clarification.

The US Forest Roads overlay in JOSM shows the name of forest roads
without "Road"; e.g. "Burton Creek B". Should the suffix "road" be added
or is it redundant and a waste of bytes? (Sometimes there may be
continuity from, say, a County Road with e.g. "Burton Creek Road", though.)

Mark.

On 2020/07/30 2:55, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Alright, I think we have a consensus forming.  Someone want to update
> the wiki?
> 
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:30 PM Evin Fairchild <evindfair at gmail.com
> <mailto:evindfair at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm also in favor of this change. It's a route number, so it only
>     should be in the ref tag. This will make Forest service roads more
>     consistent with other numbered routes. Even though most, if not all,
>     Forest service roads don't have a name but just a number, I still am
>     in favor of this. I was a bit surprised that the wiki was saying to
>     keep the road number in the name.
> 
>     In fact, the names that most of these forest service roads have
>     don't even match common parlance. Most people refer to them as
>     "Forest Service Road XX" whereas the TIGER import called them
>     "National Forest Development Road XX," which might be the official
>     name, but not the most common name.
> 
>     -Evin
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 6:47 AM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:miketho16 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>         On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 1:33 PM Paul Johnson
>         <baloo at ursamundi.org <mailto:baloo at ursamundi.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>             Could we get the US Road Tagging page updated to reflect
>             common name practice instead of encouraging the duplication
>             of the ref in the name?  Or is that going to spark drama?
> 
>         I am in favor of the change.  The name tag should be for the
>         name only.
> 
>         Mike
> 
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