[OSM-talk] cadastre, ways, rendering

[Bruce Cowan]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:33 +0100, Marcus Bauer wrote:
> If a highway has more than one ref, like A8/E88, it makes sense to
> alternatingly tag ways, i.e. one section of a highway A8, the next E88.
> You will always have more information to put into the map, but it
> doesn't get better and isn't even of use for later routing, as long as
> it is tagged motorway.

According to Map Features [0], the ways should be tagged as ref=A8,
int_ref=E88.  I have employed this for a section of the A8 in Britain
also known as the E05.[1]

[0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:reference
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A8_road
-- 
Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com>