[Talk-us] West Virginia County Roads tagging scheme

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

With US:I, how do you handle disambiguation between identical 3-digit refs
on the US Interstate System?

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 7:02 PM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> 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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