[Talk-us] Ref values on unusual highway networks

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 09:25 2022-02-10, Clay Smalley đã viết:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 8:03 AM Shawn K. Quinn 
> <skquinn at rushpost.com 
> <mailto:skquinn at rushpost.com>> wrote:
> 
>     As a Houstonian and likely the most active mapper for the greater
>     Houston area, I am perfectly okay with finding another ref for the Sam
>     Houston Tollway or omitting it entirely. However, I am open to other
>     options if a majority of OSM users in/near Houston feel differently.
> 
> 
> I used to be a proponent of the initialism ref values on Houston area 
> toll roads. Looking back, they probably don't belong, since they aren't 
> used anywhere other than OSM.

By the way, if there's any concern that removing refs would make less 
sophisticated maps unusable, there's a possible middle ground: keep the 
initialism in the way's ref, but replace the route relation's ref with 
short_name or unsigned_ref as appropriate. Way refs already depart from 
what's signposted for other reasons (particularly the postal 
abbreviation prefixes) yet are no longer the most machine-readable 
representation of route numbers. For one-off routes, we can treat the 
initialisms in way refs as a form of graceful degradation for less 
sophisticated renderers that don't have any need to parse the tag value.

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us