[Talk-us] Labeling county roads (Idaho)

[Mark Brown]

Thanks for all the feedback, especially from Kevin.

I will create road route relations as suggested, as I come across them. 



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On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 18:35:28 -0700, Mark Wagner <mark+osm at carnildo.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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