Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

2015-06-26 Thread James Mast
I personally don't consider adding prefixes as 'tagging for the map'. They are VERY useful for routers as well. Plus, to be honest, there should be a way to easily identify what type a route is, especially when it changes between classifications, like {3} does several times. Especially if {3}

Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

2015-06-26 Thread Stewart C. Russell
Hi Kevin > Andrewpmk (almost entirely him) and I reversed all of the ON prefixes > to the 400-Series highways Many thanks to you both for doing that. > Personally I don't think there should be any prefix for rendering or > navigation purposes, but I guess it depends on whether you think > county

Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

2015-06-26 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:51 PM, James Mast wrote: > Well Kevin, > > Well, it seems that the edits from 'OntarioEditor' along the entire 405 were > missed and still have the 'ON' in the ref tag on the ways. > > As for the new user doing it, it's 'North American Highways'. I sent him > both a PM a

Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

2015-06-26 Thread James Mast
Well Kevin, Well, it seems that the edits from 'OntarioEditor' along the entire 405 were missed and still have the 'ON' in the ref tag on the ways. As for the new user doing it, it's 'North American Highways'. I sent him both a PM and a comment on a changeset [1] directing him here to the mail

Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

2015-06-26 Thread Kevin Farrugia
(Sorry I have to re-email this Daniel - I thought I pressed reply all :P) It was discussed in February in this thread: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2015-February/006404.html Andrewpmk (almost entirely him) and I reversed all of the ON prefixes to the 400-Series highways, but

Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

2015-06-26 Thread Daniel Begin
AFAIK, it has never been discussed at least on this forum. I consider it as an error or even vandalism since it does not conform to acceptable rules (1) A similar behavior has been seen a couple of months ago where user:OntarioEditor added a prefix to ref tag for most primary/secondary roads in