[Talk-us] USFS Roads - name and ref

[Max Erickson]

Abbreviations are predominant in US highway refs, so I think that it is
fine to use one in USFS road refs.

At some point in time I had used ref=USFS xxx but changed stuff that I had
edited to ref=FS xxx. The usage of FS in Michigan is largely a product of
either my editing directly or my discussion with other mappers (and looking
at Overpass Turbo and Taginfo, something like 45% of all refs with the
string "FS" in them...).

I don't remember really, but I think I started with USFS because it was
nearly entirely unambiguous, and then I switched because the usage of FS
was more common.

ref:usfs=FS looks wrong to me, if usfs is in the key, then it doesn't
belong repeated in the value (unless there's 2 reference systems in use,
which there are, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Highway is not the
same thing as the Forest Service logging roads)).

The use of ref:usfs also has the problem that it hides useful data on
general purpose maps that don't specifically use it.

If ref is to be used, I expect you won't arrive at any real consensus about
what to use as a prefix, because it's easy to have an opinion about it
(bikeshedding basically). I guess if enough people pick one we might get
close.


Max
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