Toby Speight wrote: > That's why we have > rendering rules - if you don't like the rendering, change the rules.
What you're suggesting would imply that every worldwide site using OSM data to display a consumer-facing map, or provide routing, needs to write a special exception for Great Britain. With the best will in the world, that doesn't and isn't going to happen. (I think only one such site does so, and it's the one I run!) Dave's edit (minutiae about highway_authority_ref vs unsigned_ref vs official_ref aside[1]) brings this country into line with how most of the rest of the world does it: the ref= tag is for signposted references. See how https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ref#Examples_on_ways refers to "on the ground", "on the signs", "the usage on the signs". Richard [1] Personally, I honestly don't mind whether it's unsigned_ref or admin_ref or official_ref or highway_authority_ref or one of the many other things that have been suggested over the years. It might be worth having the conversation here to see if there's something that people can coalesce around, and then no doubt a further edit would be possible. At that point, though, I would be tempted to bow out and redirect my energies to the intriguing question of how an entirely bogus pub appears to have survived in an allegedly well-mapped urban area for eight years. ;) https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/678796800/history -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Great-Britain-f5372682.html _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
