[Talk-us] USFS Roads

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 5:33 PM brad <bradhaack at fastmail.com> wrote:

> Currently the wiki doesn't mention ref:usfs, and says to use
>
> NF xx (for those roads with a *Distinctive Route Marker*)
>
> FR xx (for any other National Forest System Road)
>
> I did some tag filtering US wide & it looks like NF is used the most.
> Nationwide FS & FR are both used roughly the same (but some of those are
> Fort Stewart, not Forest Service), in the west FR is used about twice as
> much.   In Colorado, due to Rob's prolific work, the majority may be tagged
> as ref:usfs=FS xxx
>
ref=NF/FR xxxx is what I usually see and use, but we need to be moving away
from tagging routes on ways instead of their own relation, use network
"US:NFSR:Forest name:FR" or ":NF".

> On the USFS maps that I pulled up, they just put the number, there is no
> NF/FS/FR.
>
> Probably another hopeless, never ending discussion.
>
Well, ultimately a hopefully moot one.
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