On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> wrote: > > Consider this opposition. The majority of states seem to be using the > postal abbreviation for state highways. There are only a few that don't > or that only use a single letter (Kansas and Michigan come to mind). >
Kansas has been moving to KS (even though K is unambiguous) for consistency reasons. Michigan should probably get on board as well (and I've seen hints that it's starting to). > More meaning is evident in "LA 8 becomes TX 63" (oh, we're crossing into > Texas) as opposed to "SH 8 becomes SH 63" (what, the highway department > can't make up their mind?). Also, seeing "TX 63" or "LA 8" makes it a > bit easier to figure out exactly what state highway shields I should be > looking for. (A pet peeve of mine are directions that just treat highway > numbers as one and the same. When I give directions, I always specify > I-10, Texas 288, US 59, FM 1960, LA 12, etc. so there is no ambiguity. > Maybe I am the odd one out though...) > Well, there's also state routes that belong to a different state than they belong to. Honestly the way Texas is handling state highways is a hot mess in the real world, but it's made even hotter by systematic OSM inconsistency with both OSM and TxDOT, what with way tagging ref=* with "Loop 395" instead of "TX Loop 395", and splitting the Farm/Ranch to Market network into two networks (when they're only one; the "ranch road" and "farm road" signs are TxDOT's own internal foibles and used inconsistently and interchangeable even along the same road somewhat often). Even better, there *is* a Ranch Road network in Texas, of which there's only one member (making it similar to the NASA Road network, which also only has one member). http://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/fmfacts.htm My Texas fix would be to stop tagging routes on ways entirely (ie, ref=* on a way shouldn't have anything to do with a route it's a member of, but something that should actually have something to do with the way; Oregon actually does make this distinction, for example) as this is the only thing for which we tag qualities that belong to a completely different entity than for which the one it belongs, stop tagging farm-to-market roads as "ranch", leave that for Ranch Road 1 (and any of it's future peers instead). All in all, *it's long overdue that we retire ref=* on ways to describe routes.*
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