"Mike N." <nice...@att.net> writes: >> Second, separating out the highway system requires the data consuming >> application to know how to piece things back together. Otherwise, a >> shield on a map for example with just a "25" in it is pretty limited in >> use. > > After / if a generalized shield solution is in place, a 25 placed on an > 'Interstate' shield is quite descriptive.
But it required every application that is to deal with US data to know about it. > It avoids the need for the renderer or consumer to parse out the > number. Which is quite trivial to do. > >> Third, I consider a reference containing just the number to be >> incomplete. IMHO, the ref tag should contain the complete designation >> of a piece of highway. This also makes it easier to search for this. > > To search, just search for both the network and route tags. It's just as > though the information was placed in separate database columns. Which makes it much more complicated if the application used for searching does not support the schema. Matthias _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
