On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 6:11 AM Markus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Many of the hiking trails around here have formal names that look like descriptions. Many are named for endpoints, with possible intermediate waypoints: "Van Hoevenberg Trail to Mount Marcy", "Elk Lake Trail to Mount Marcy", :Elk Lake to Lilian Brook Trail" "Giant Ledge-Panther Mountain-Fox Hollow Trail", "Northville-Placid Trail", "Oliverea to Mapledale Trail", "Ramapo-Dunderberg Trail", "Suffern-Bear Mountain Trail" to name just a handful out of dozens, if not hundreds. There are also trails that are named for their waymarks: "Red Cross Trail", "Blue Disc Trail" and "White Bar Trail" are the formal names of the routes. The published route descriptions at sites like https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/9150.html include these descriptive names. In the linked page, 'Long Path,' 'Curtiss-Ormsbee Trail' and 'Burroughs Range Trail' are most likely what you'd consider proper names, but all the other names merely are taken from the endpoints. Please don't assume that every name that looks like a description is simply a stopgap. Obviously, if you know you've misused the description as the name, fix it, but where the guidebooks and signs agree that the description is the name, please leave it alone. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
