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

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:32 PM Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>
wrote:

> Vào lúc 16:57 2021-11-19, Mike Thompson đã viết:
> > We really should not just be discussing this on a list that is specific
> > to the US as this is a worldwide issue.  Most other countries have
> > numbered routes as well, and - unless there is a reason not to be - we
> > should try to be consistent.  I don't see a reason why the US should be
> > different when it comes to how numbered routes are tagged.  We should
> > get input from the worldwide OSM community.
>
> For things like road names, ref formats, and addresses that inherently
> differ between countries, the kinds of consistency that matter are
> principles like verifiability and maintainability, not the specifics
> like whether to use a hyphen or a space in the ref. Systematic names
> aren't unique to the U.S., but they are particularly prevalent here, and
> this discussion might well be influenced by local considerations like
> the MUTCD and E911.
>
> If we do expand this discussion globally, we're going to have a talk
> about how it's possible to drive westbound on "East County Road 00 North
> South" (not to be confused with ref=US 35;SR 22). [1]
>

So, County Road 00 (using our Nebrahoma example again) in Corn County,
Nebrahoma, Federated States (which conveniently uses US tagging
conventions) would get a road route relation in network FS:NA:Corn with a
ref of 00.   noname=yes applies on the way, and ref would be US 35;NA 22;CR
00 (something I hope we can make optional and sunset in the future since
the ref doesn't describe the way at all but the route that the way is a
member of)
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