On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I realize that my last couple of messages were sent from the wrong > return address and didn't go to the list. Oops. Apologies to anyone > who's getting this twice. > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 11:24 Jack Burke <burke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> While some counties just attach a number to a pole (e.g., many counties > in Georgia), there are some that put up signs saying "CR 123" (Jasper > County, Mississippi) for unnamed county roads. However, Clarke County, > Mississippi signs (with shiny new green-signs-on-a-stick) county roads as > "Clarke Co. 123". What are everyone's thoughts on how to name these roads > in OSM for Clarke County? We can just leave the name field blank and use > ref=CR 123, we can do the ref tag and also include name=County Road 123, or > we can do ref=CR 123 and name=Clarke County 123. Or even ref=CR 123, > name=Clarke County 123, alt_name=County Road 123. Or swap the name= and > alt_name= values. > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:35 PM Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > Just ref=CR 123. The name should not be redundant to the ref, so if > it's signed as Clark Co. 123 and that's it, then add noname=yes as well. > The name is only the name, name is not ref. > > I could go either way with what you put as the name on a way. In > localities where "County Road 1400W" is a typical street name, and the > county roads have blade signs or none at all, it makes sense to give > it as the name. (Although what you put in the name should match > whatever is on the signage). > Yeah, even then I'd be more inclined to go with ref=CR 1400W, noname=yes on the way itself. > But please, do road routes as relations. That is, for Clarke County > Road 123, please create a relation: > > type=route > route=road > network=US:MS:Clarke > ref=123 > > with the ways of County Road 123 being members of the relation. > I'm trying to remember to do this for county roads, though this is not the easiest thing to remember since basically every section line road in Oklahoma (and pretty much every state due north of Oklahoma) is probably a county road.
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