[Talk-us] Name tag on unnamed, but numbered routes

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 18:07 2021-11-19, Paul Johnson đã viết:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 7:54 PM Minh Nguyen 
> <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us 
> <mailto:minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>> wrote:
> 
>     Regardless, I think there's a strong case for explicitly tagging names
>     that don't follow the usual formula, rather than expecting data
>     consumers to special-case individual routes or roads. It's been a while
>     since I traveled through Oklahoma, but I remember there used to be
>     street name signs all along U.S. 69/75 that read "State Road 69".
>     That's
>     information that would be lost by deleting the name tag in favor of
>     ref.
>     Just map the signs, right? :_(
> 
> 
> I'm not sure that's always a good plan.  I'm familiar with the section 
> that you're referring to, and geographically immediately clear that it's 
> the correct route if your nav tells you to "turn right onto US 69, US 
> 75", there are still currently OK state highways with numbers 69A and 
> 75A, and 75A still has at least one OK 75 sign on it reflecting its old 
> number.  The ground truth matches what's in the state law and the 
> section books, and it's not uncommon to find signs ODOT missed updating 
> for decades.  Heck, there's still some OK 33 signs floating around 
> various roads that fell into county maintenance and errantly now on 
> different highways after OK 66 and US 412 supplanted most of its route 
> east of its terminus in front of Sapulpa High School.  This inconsistent 
> signage is what lead to the Liberty Parkway situation on OK 364 a couple 
> years back , even though it's been signed Liberty Parkway since that 
> extension was built.

Ah, I didn't realize it's just an outdated sign. The sign looked kind of 
new to me, so I thought it was just a quirk of Oklahoma's, reflecting 
the fact that U.S. Routes are technically state-maintained roads.

This faulty memory aside, I think my point stands about road names that 
intentionally buck the usual formula.

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us