On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Kevin Atkinson <ke...@atkinson.dhs.org>wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > > >> On 3 Aug 2010, at 22:32 , Kevin Atkinson wrote: >> >> >>> OK. So There is clearly no agreement on the abbreviation of road types >>> (Street, Way, etc). So what about these specific exceptions. I will assume >>> silence means agreement :) >>> >>> Rather than "United Stated Highway 29 Frontage Road" just "U.S. 29 >>> Frontage Road" or maybe "US 29 Frontage Road". Why. Because no will say the >>> formal out load. >>> >>> >> most of the times I see it >> name=Frontage Road >> ref=US 29 >> >> this will be rendered in similar way as on other maps. Name is on the >> street and US, I, is on a shield. Doesn't make sense to duplicate the ref on >> the name. >> > > Since when does a frontage road get a Highway shield? > > got this wrong and meant Frontage road is a name, but now need to correct altogether. but what is meant here has most likely no name at all. frontage road is a then a type of highway not a name. and US 29 in any form is not really a name either. again all other maps will not render names unless there really is a defined name. normally ramp, access road, frontage road are mapped as highway=*link without name > And in any case you are saying that the frontage road is part of US 29? > > >
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