Hi everyone.
I could really use the help of others around the USA that deal with editing roads on Indian Reservations. I have found in NM that there is a lot of inconsistency in the base map with regard to naming conventions. This is a repost from a while ago that had no replies.
I wonder if we could have something added to the Wiki that addresses this road naming convention so we can start fixing them in states that have such regions. The naming might depend on the particular tribe, but could be made consistent across reservations where it doesn’t matter. Where names are tribe-specific and used there or marked there with tribal names, that could always take precedence.
Many of the road names currently seem to be be far too long to easily display on a small client screen. For instance, a common long name in NM is “Indian Service Route ###” or “Indian Service Rte ###.” I have seen a bunch of other variations like Svc for Service. Of course, I would prefer ISR-### as something terse, but would go with the flow as SR-### and US-### are not used. A very common root naming seems to be BIA-### (Bureau of Indian Affairs). I did some research and a lot of the roads are funded by BIA.
Do you know of any reservation-specific naming conventions more broadly across the USA?
Do other editors in the US have other reservation road naming types that would be specific to their regions?
Thanks!