> The 'parentheses' idea for tagging county roads would be mine. I used it in > New Jersey, and then I applied it to county highways when doing fixup in > Florida. For some strange reason, NE2 liked my system so much that he used > it to tag county roads wherever he edited (including the whole of Florida) > after that. It wasn't so much that I preferred it to others as that I initially saw it in use and thought it was the standard, and by the time I had realized there were other standards in use elsewhere it had become the standard in Florida. I'm not going to change over manually, because that way lies typos. Instead I hope one day there's a single method of tagging state and county roads that has enough consensus to implement everywhere, and a semi-automated process can help convert.
It's worth remembering that US maps almost always place the number in either the shield used for the road or a generic shape (usually circle for state and rectangle for county, though that's the reverse of West Virginia's signs). I don't know why there hasn't been any work on rendering U.S. Highway and Interstate shields with a simple pattern match of "US *" and "I *"; it doesn't need to be perfect, just a reasonable outline. Hopefully, if this were ever done, it would provide an impetus to standardize tagging of lower types so they too could be rendered consistently. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
