The use of the ref tag for highway authority road numbers is controversial in the UK (no road with a signed number would be as low as highway=unclassified). There may be better examples in other countries.
-- Andrew ________________________________ From: Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> Sent: 06 May 2018 13:28 To: tagging@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Tagging] Is it possible to have highway=unclassified with ref tag? On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 09:41 +0200, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > I am pretty sure that it is entirely possible to have > highway=unclassified > with officially assigned and posted ref number, but I wanted to check > whatever my edit on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3 > Dunclassified > was correct. It is certainly possible, in the UK all public highways have a reference number. For lower classifications these references are used internally by Local Authorities and the references do not appear on signs. The consensus is that only references that a visible should use the ref tag in OSM. For unsigned references we use official_ref and prow_ref which will not appear on the standard map but can be rendered on more specialised maps. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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