[OSM-talk] [Tagging] How can the US get its stuff together? (was Re: Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap)

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 16 23:42:37 BST 2010


On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> I wonder if it's worth the trouble and effort to maintain US-HISTORIC
> routes, since their use is primarily recreational and are frequently
> inconsistent in their continued existence, and frequently their historic
> posted alignments.  For example, OK-66 goes through Kellyville, though
> the old US-66 alignment now runs abandoned and without pavement through
> the property I'm on...

Since Historic US 66 is (I believe) posted in every state, yes, it
should have relations. These relations shouldn't include abandoned
roads that aren't marked as part of the historic route, however.



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