fly wrote:
There was a ticket [1] filled on josm trac about milestones.
Now I am a bit puzzled as the tag pk= seems to be Frensh and should be
kp=* in English. This is even written in the wiki. Though the usage is
100:1 towards pk=*.
Where (outside of OSM) is "kp=" used on a road distance indicator?
I've never heard of it in English English. In American English there's
"mile number" which is used to refer to the area at a certain distance
from X, not a physical marker (do they use "mile marker" for that? I
think they might). There's one use of "kp=" in the UK, apparently:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/kp
which is here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2119528545
I'm guessing from it's location that that one is an actual "milestone"
(i.e. made of stone) whereas the picture on the wiki page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=milestone
most certainly is not. That wiki page reckons that an actual milestone
rather than a distance marker is a "historic=milestone" rather than a
"highway=milestone", apparently.
Obviously OSM English != any variety of spoken English, but I wonder
what highway distance markers in the UK, USA, Australia etc. are tagged as?
Cheers,
Andy
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