On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Phil! Gold <phi...@pobox.com> wrote: > I'd like to solicit some thoughts on the tagging for special routes > (commonly known as bannered routes)[0]. In route relations, it's > customary to separate the network and the reference number. How do or > should special routes fit into that? > > I'm torn between three views and I'm not sure which of them is the best > fit for the way people think about special routes in a general sense. > > Let's consider one of US Route 1's alternate routes[1]. We can > think of it as: > > * An independent route within the US Highway system whose reference > number happens to be alphanumeric. > network=US:US > ref=1 Alternate (but people might use ref=1 Alt, because that's what's > on some of the signs) > > * A route within the subset of the US Highway system consisting of > alternate routes: > network=US:US:Alternate > ref=1 > > -- > ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ > PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 > --- -- > Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. > :-) > -- Larry Wall > ---- --- -- > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
> > * A route related to the main US Route 1, but with an additional tag > indicating that it's a bannered offshoot: > network=US:US > ref=1 > banner=Alternate > > I'm partial to the idea of separating the banner from the reference > number, but I'm not sure how any of these ideas mesh with the > understandings of people with more experience with road networks than I > have. > > tagging@ is included because I'm not sure how global a practice this sort > of thing is, even though it's quite common in the US. > > [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_route > [1]: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannered_routes_of_U.S._Route_1#Alternate_routes adding a tag for banner=Alternate/Business/Truck is my least-favourite option of those above. increasing specificity on the network tag like network=US:US:Alt follows the original intent of the network tag. It also offers the least surprise to naive consumers of the data. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
