Currently description of route is recommended to be mapped in name tag. It clearly should be placed in description tag, with name tag used for a name of the route.
I plan on amending Wiki this way, despite that proposal recommended misuses of name tag. Please comment if such edit would not advisable in your opinion. 10 May 2019, 12:07 by [email protected]: > 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 > > <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.) >
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