Hello, This question concerns ways maintained/operated by the US Forest Service (USFS) and signed with vertical markers, e.g. [0]. These signs typically display a three digit number, with an optional decimal point (dot/period) followed by another number and/or a letter.
Name: The wiki [1] states that these should name=Forest Road + <what is on the sign>. In practice, either from other mappers, or from the original TIGER import, I have seen: * just what is on the sign * Fire Road + <what is on the sign> * FR + <what is on the sign> * Forest Development Road + <what is on the sign> * FDR + <What is on the sign> * Forest Service Road + <what is on the sign> * FS + <what is on the sign> * United States Forest Service Road + <what is on the sign> * ...(many more variations) Does the wiki reflect the consensus of the US mapper community (which I am part of) on how these should be named, or should they be named in some other manner? To complicated matters, it seems that the Forest Service itself is not consistent and the exact wording of a name will depend on what brochure, map board, or dataset from the Forest Service you are looking at. I don't really have a preference, except to say 1) Many of the above examples include abbreviations, which OSM generally refrains from, and 2) I think we should be consistent. ref: The wiki states that these should be ref=FR + <what is on the sign>. In practice: * ref:usfs=FS + <what is on the sign> * ref=FS + <what is on the sign> Most of the changesets that added a "ref:usfs" tag include a very helpful comment that this issue was discussed on the tagging list at sometime in the past and that this was the consensus, e.g. [2]. If this continues to be the consensus, can we change the wiki? Mike [0] Left sign in this image: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:US_Forest_Service_Vertical_Marker.png [1] wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#Tagging_Forest_Roads [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/73470389
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