On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Albert Pundt <roadsgu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes bannered routes like business and alternate routes are tagged > with, for example, ref=US 1 Business, spelling it out fully, and other > times they abbreviate it, e.g. ref=US 1 Alt. Which is considered the best > practice? We already abbreviate the US, I, etc., so it's not a stretch to > abbreviate the banner word as well. And while we shouldn't tag only for the > renderer, it also has the advantage of not being too long for the current > Carto style. > I would generally go without abbreviation, eg, ref=US 1 Alternate, though in the long term, I really think it's long overdue to kill the dinosaur of tagging refs for routes on ways and just describe routes via relations, in which case, the relation would be... relation=route route=road network=US:US:Alternate ref=1 modifier=Alternate In the interim, do both for now.
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