* Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> [2012-03-11 22:30 -0400]: > It also makes the most sense to put it in the ref tag. Otherwise > there's inconsistency between an alternate signed as US 1 Alternate > and one signed as US 1A (with the suffix in the shield). In each > case I'll also use the modifier tag (modifier=Alternate/A).
But US 1A and US 1 Alternate are signed quite differently. From the perspective of a driver on the road, the US 1 Alternate signing is much more obviously a variant route of US 1. (US 1A even has its/their own page on Wikipedia, while the US 1 Alternates are listed with the other special routes on the "Bannered routes of US 1" page. Not that Wikipedia dictates our actions, but it's indicative of other people's thinking on the matter.) Note that I'm not strictly disagreeing with you. I do personally like the separate network, ref, modifier tagging approach a little more than the others, but I also don't consider myself to have that extensive an understanding of road networks, either in the US or worldwide. I mostly want to see what sort of community consensus there is here, so the data consumer I'm working on will work in a reasonable way. I'd hoped to have feedback from several people, but since you're the only person who's responded so far, you get all the questions. :| -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- If I'm drunk and tell you to grab my wrist, don't. -- Keith Engle, Aikido blackbelt ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
