[Talk-us] Labeling county roads (Idaho)

[Mark Wagner]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 21:45:19 +0900
tj-osmwiki at lowsnr.net wrote:

> Newby here.
> 
> Started mapping an area of the Idaho panhandle around the Kootenai
> river. I notice that currently minor roads have a "County Road nn"
> name but TIGER2019 data also has names such as "Acacia Avenue". I
> think most map users would want to use the "Acacia Avenue" name as it
> what would be listed in postal addresses and they'd want to search it
> in applications such as OSMand. Question is how to handle this. Also,
> what to set the "ref" to for county roads.
> 
> There's not much information on the roads tagging page:
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#Individual_states_2
> 
> Proposal: use alt_name for "County Road nn" and name for "Acacia
> Avenue" where a name is given. (I've seen name_1 used but this is not
> really a "standard" OSM tag, AFAIK.)
> 
> For ref: set the ref to the county road number until someone can come
> up with a better proposal...
> 
> Any Idahoans have any information?

Not an Idahoan, but I've driven in the area from time to time.  The
roads I'm familiar with don't have a "County Road" designation on the
sign, just the road name.

-- 
Mark