[Talk-us] Ref values on unusual highway networks

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 7:03 AM Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com> wrote:

> On 2/10/22 06:32, Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
> > I've begun the following wiki page to compile a listing of this rogues
> > gallery of road networks which do not have a clear translation between
> > signage and ref values:
> >
> >
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Unusual_highway_networks
> > <
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Unusual_highway_networks
> >
> [...]
> > There have generally been two approaches to assigning ref values for
> > these cases:
> > 1. Omit the ref value entirely
> > 2. Create the ref value from an initialism of the route's name (for
> > example, Sam Houston Tollway is tagged ref=SHT and I am not making this
> up)
>
> I think a lot of #2 (such as your example) comes because some validators
> at least used to flag #1 as an error (Keep Right flagged and probably
> still flags motorway without ref=*, there may have been others).
>

In situations where this is the case, replacing ref=* with noref=yes would
be ideal.
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