On 04/08/2011 02:11 PM, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:03:25PM -0500, Nathan Mills wrote: >> On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:11:49 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >>> On 4/8/2011 2:00 PM, James Mast wrote: >>>> I just thought I would throw this out there so this can be >>>> settled once >>>> and for all. Which ref tag setup do you think should be used for >>>> State >>>> Highways on ways (not relations)? "PA-44" or "44". >>> There's a third way: use the correct abbreviation. So Florida, if a >>> prefix is used, would have SR, not FL. Pennsylvania, on the other >>> hand, would use PA. >> >> 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. > > States like Wisconsin get tricky, too. "Wis nn" is common, but so is the > much older "STH nn" (for State Trunk Highway).
For consistency's sake, if it's part of the primary or secondary state highway systems (ie, MO 43, MO FF) it should have just the state's common abbreviation, not the abbreviation that only the locals would know.
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