Presently numbered county roads in Florida (and New Jersey) are tagged using parentheses, for example ref=(535) for County Road 535. The reasons for this are essentially a historical accident. I'm proposing a semi-automated change from this to ref=CR 535. The present format is likely confusing to most users, while the new format would be easier to understand and no harder for a renderer to convert to a shield.
The steps would be to download a XAPI query of ref=* for Florida and then to use regular expressions to change the refs. I'm not quite sure how to do the latter; JOSM doesn't seem to have a find-replace function. Does anyone have experience with this sort of replacement and can offer advice? I'm sending this proposal to the talk-us mailing list as well as to individual mappers who have edited recently in Florida. Please discuss it either on the list or through the OSM messaging system. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
