Is there a reason to have the network tag with "networkUS:state:county" instead of three separate tags for "network:country" "network:state" and "network:county" in the case of county roads and two in the case of state, etc. Having a "network:country=" tag will clear up any confusion in which country the route is in.
I don't think a simple US:state:county tag will suffice as people have complained about parsing. Such a tag would likely have to be tagged "network:location=US:state:county" as you would have to differentiate between interstates, highways, etc. easily. By having a network and location tags you could know the location and type of road. Additionally this would allow for rendering of shields or determining the type route for other rendering differentiation purposes. I think because other tags break out location based on country, state, county, etc it would be wise to also do so with network tagging. There are many counties that have the same name that are in different locations. Other OSM users have expressed issues with relying on pre-possessing to gather location data. Andrew On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 09:57, Peter Budny <pet...@gatech.edu> wrote: > Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> > wrote: > >> On 10/25/2010 08:43 AM, Zeke Farwell wrote: > >> > >>> For Michigan route 12: > >>> ref=12 > >>> network=state > >>> state=michigan > >>> > >>> For Bennington County route 16 in Vermont: > >>> ref=16 > >>> network=county > >>> state=vermont > >>> county=bennington > >> > >> I like it, though it should be pointed out that this is more difficult > >> unless we're talking about route relations. > > > > I kind of like this system as well. It is clear and easy to > > understand. The only problem (as pointed out before) is that it breaks > > the network tag compared to the rest of the world. Can we use it > > anyway? :) > > What about making it "network=US:state" or "network=US:county"? That > way it's easy to tell US states apart from states in other countries. > Does that ruin its simplicity and elegance? > -- > Peter Budny \ > Georgia Tech \ > CS PhD student \ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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