LA hwy naming

[scruffy151]

It looks like from the other thread the general naming convention for state highways is SR-xx or SH-xx. Is Louisiana going to be one of the exceptions and use LA-xx? It would make sense to me, most of the signs seem to be printed that way.

[jasonh300]

In southern Louisiana, we pronounce most state highways as "Ellay-##" This is how the TTS is going to pronounce "LA-##". So it should work.

Sketch was going to inquire about getting LA-## to generate shields. That's the main drawback to doing this. I've only successfully gotten a state highway shield (round oval) out of "State Hwy ##".

[scruffy151]

True. I am trying to get ahead of the curve. So when shield generation catches up we will be ready.

[sketch]

Yeah, no reason not to start early. Gonna try to get 'em to automagically convert all "State Rte" and "State Hwy" to "LA-" and then to create shields for them.

It could just be LA ## without the hyphen, which seems to be how it's done in all official literature, but I don't think it really matters.

[MReiser4670]

I'd love to do the same thing in PA...we call our state routes PA-XX as well. It flows much better abbreviated.

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[jasonh300]

Yeah, no reason not to start early. Gonna try to get 'em to automagically convert all "State Rte" and "State Hwy" to "LA-" and then to create shields for them.

It could just be LA ## without the hyphen, which seems to be how it's done in all official literature, but I don't think it really matters.

What official literature?

[sketch]

As far as I remember, every LADOT page I've seen. I might be mistaken.