[Talk-us] West Virginia County Roads tagging scheme

[Paul Johnson]

With US:WV:County, instead of replacing County with the name of the county,
how do you handle disambiguation between identical refs in different
counties?

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 5:46 PM Attila Kun <attila at attilakundev.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to ask your opinion on the tagging scheme of West Virginia's
> county roads.
>
> Clay on OSMUS Slack suggested the idea that the tagging scheme of WV CRs
> should be standardized because all roads in WV are maintained by the State,
> and they have one kind of route shield which is basically the standard
> MUTCD state road shield (M1-5) /
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:MUTCD_M1-5.svg/
> Also there is an interesting article about WV roads:
> http://www.andrewturnbull.net/wvhighways.html
>
> The current tagging scheme is the following: network=WV:US:*County*,
> where County means the county the road is in. Like: US:WV:Mercer
>
> We've came up with three ideas:
> 1. US:WV:County (County is not substituted with anything)
> 2. US:WV:CR
> 3. US:WV:Secondary
>
> The most beneficial thing would be that if you want to have a renderer for
> shields like OSM Americana, then you would have to write only one condition
> for checking these shields rather then writing 55 conditions for each WV
> county. (and have less wikipages on OSM wiki for guidelines, and it's less
> complicated)
>
> On OSMUS Slack US:WV:County got the most (5) votes, however, I would like
> to hear your opinions who are not on OSMUS Slack or not in those particular
> conversations there.
>
> Best regards,
> Attila Kun (ottwiz)
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