Regarding the recent changes (from 6 May 2019) to the wiki page "Public transport" about the misuse of the name tag for route descriptions (e.g. name="701: Samedan Bahnhof - Le Prese Stazione"). [1]
[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Public_transport&action=history I agree that the route description (from - to) is not its name. By the way, the same problem also affects hiking routes. I must admit that i've also misued the name=* tag this way. The reason are the editors: if a route is only tagged with ref=*, from=*, to=* (and description=*) and if more than one route variant or direction uses the same highway=*, one loses track of the routes and it becomes almost impossible to maintain them because editors only display the ref=* value in the relations list (e.g. there were multiple "13"). I think it were be the best if editors would also display from=* and to* (or, instead, description=*) if there is no name=tag, in order that the name=* tag can be kept for routes that really have a name=* (e.g. Via Alpina). (I'm sending this email to the tagging mailing list as it doesn't only concern public transportation routes.) Regards Markus _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
