On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Clay Smalley <claysmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > The "SR" and "SH" designations were mostly put in by NE2, IIRC. Go figure. > > I'm personally okay with this mass edit, but expect a lot of hate mail from > NE2.
FWIW I did get a pair of emails from NE2 that says, in part, he would "grudgingly accept such a change." I'd pass them along except (a) I'm not sure I have permission to do so and (b) I'm not sure it would be permissible in the sense that it might constitute posting on his behalf. In lieu of certainty I'll paraphrase and lightly quote... He does reiterate the point it would lead to long ref tags that would conflict with Mapnik's limitations. He also argues that it would make the Mapnik rendering erroneous (I suppose he's referring to the practice of using "SR xx" on blade signs and lighted overhead street signs, where the postal abbreviation is not used). He also expresses concern that the "anti-import bullies" might disapprove of a mass edit. (My thoughts follow.) As far as the blade sign issue goes, I expect that directions are more likely to use street names rather than the ref tags for routes that have both, and that the average driver is unlikely to be confused by a reference to "Florida xx" or "Florida Highway xx" instead of "State Road xx," even if it's not the local vernacular, especially since the shield in most of these cases - Florida, Georgia, and Alabama - actually looks like the state itself* (and certainly less likely to be confused by "Florida xx" than "xx" - "Turn left on 46? 46 what?") - after all, I don't think anyone has seriously proposed renaming the ref tags on US 101 in Los Angeles as "The 101." Chris * Ironically this argument would carry more weight in Mississippi... where the shield is a circle, even though legally they're "Mississippi xxx" (local vernacular though tends to be [State] Highway xxx in my experience). _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
