[Talk-us] National Forest refs/names

[Paul Johnson]

I'd generally include the whole name including "Road" in that case.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 5:03 PM <tj-osmwiki at lowsnr.net> wrote:

> 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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