On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:11:57 -0500, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote:
IMO, the state's postal abbreviation followed by the route number
should be used. This makes them easily distinguished from US or
But this is not always correct. In Michigan, for example, all state
highways
are named M-nn, with M- being part of the road's actual name in many
places.
It is never, ever, written MI-nn.
Shouldn't the ref tag be an unambiguous reference to a given road in a
route network? Clearly, one should not put name=MI XX on a Michigan
state route (unless there is a road sign reading "MI XX"), but ref=MI XX
provides said unambiguous reference and can be easily translated into
the canonical name of the route. A name should go in the name tag,
anyway. Sometimes the name and ref are identical, sometimes they're not.
Seems to me that the ref tag is much less useful when it's ambiguous.
Yes, we all ought to be using relations, but there's a lot of state
routes that don't yet have relations.
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