On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 10:21, Tony Shield <tony.shield...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To me what is emerging is that there is no formal or official name for > many of the things we are trying to map. > And there are different interpretations of the rules. For some, "rules is rules." For others, we see rules as a means to an end (making a useful map). So there is one camp that says "You can't do that, it's against the rules." And another camp that says "The rules are sub-optimal and need to be changed." As I pointed out earlier, there are many names of objects I've mapped that look like descriptions. Because that's how they started out in the distant past. It's only in more recent times that people generally used arbitrary (and often whimsical) labels for things like house names. There is a good reason for not using a description for a name. We'd end up with many buildings named "Shed," "Barn," "Dog Kennel," "House," and even "Building." Not useful: it clutters the map and makes it hard to find objects that actually have names (like house names). But an overly-strict interpretation of the rules leads people to complain about actual names that just happen to look like descriptions, or are even identical to descriptions. If OSM puts a name against a route it is the idea of the individual > mapper possibly in agreement with others. If a guidebook has a named > walking route which is a different name to that in a different guidebook > (but an identical route)- which is correct? Should OSM give it a 3rd name? > That's a problem. You can use alt_name so that all the names show up in a search. Some mappers might name it "Womble Walk / Wimbledon Walk" or something like that. For the T5 bus, is that going to Aberteifi or Cardigan > It's the same place. Cardigan is the English name; Aberteifi is the Welsh name. The only other one like that on that timetable is New Quay / Cei Newydd. However, that timetable is on the Ceredigion County Council website and covers only the portion of the route that is in Ceredigion. There are a lot more like that on the full timetable: https://www.richardsbros.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/T5-October-2018.pdf What's not clear on that other timetable is that it's not a through service all the way: to get from Aberystwyth to Haverfordwest you get off the T5 at Cardigan (or Aberteifi if you're Welsh) and get on another T5 to complete the journey. There are really two T5s, one does Cardigan-Aberystwyth-Cardigan and the other Cardigan-Haverford West-Cardigan. Which is another reason why route number alone is inadequate and it is vital to look at the headsign on the bus. -- Paul
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