UGH ! :(( "Noble" - in my case Karen. Died April, last year (or was it the year before) - cancer. I've just been OSMing in her area - she was an infamous author - amongst her 'titles' is The Highway Code - the official book blah blah - the official title of the book. What HMSO turn out now: "The Official Highway Code" is not the official title of the official book. She was a good source of roads technicalities.
On 18 March 2015 at 21:13, Donald Noble <drno...@gmail.com> wrote: > This came up in discussions at the Edinburgh pub Meetup last night, and > those there (quite a few of the prominent mappers in Scotland) agreed that > eg U1234 should be on either admin_ref or official_ref (whichever was most > popular) And not on the main ref tag. > > Also perhaps a case for not rendering references on residential roads? But > the issue with routing engines directing onto unsigned road references > meant we felt it was more than just a rendering issue. > > Donald > I'm sure it'd be wrong to put one set of data across more than one field. So all ABCU road numbers need to be consistently placed irrespective of whether the data appears on signage. In towns, streetnames should 'come first' out of directions systems. The earlier comment of "take the U1234" being meaningless without signage is just as useless as "Take Tippins Lane" when Tippins Lane isn't signed either yet the name appears on the maps. What's in the database isn't relevant to 'directions'. Directions software should be able to distinguish between the value of "Follow A47" and "Follow U1234" and "Follow Tippin's Lane". It should also accommodate "Turn left at The Church" (I'll leave it up to you to decide what liquid gets worshipped at The Church) as many people seem to like to navigate by buildings. At the fork in the road, you have reached MacDonalds. It seems OSM needs people who know something about databases and usefulness of data. Whether A, B, C or U, primary/trunk/secondary/tertiary is fairly irrelevant to the road user. Speed of travel, directness of route and suitability of route are the most useful bits of data the road user has to interpret out of all the fluff. -- Mike. @millomweb <https://sites.google.com/site/millomweb/index/introduction> - For all your info on Millom and South Copeland via *the area's premier website - * *currently unavailable due to ongoing harassment of me, my family, property & pets* T&Cs <https://sites.google.com/site/pmailkeey/e-mail>
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