I think the trick is to come up with a solution that does not change anything for the current users (backward compatible), but provides a functional or visible benefit if applied. I would not hesitate to apply such a solution to all the foot/hiking routes I oversee.
By the way, WMT finds a lot of routes by name, even though the names contain hyphens, comma's, colons and round brackets. Best, Peter Elderson Op zo 29 mrt. 2020 om 22:29 schreef Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net >: > Sarah Hoffmann wrote: > > These days I wonder if it wouldn't be better if we introduce a > > tag that explicitly contains the name only. How about > > official_name for a, well, official name of the route and > > local_name for one that is used by everybody else. > > Interesting thought. That really isn't a terrible idea. Well, ok, it _is_ a > terrible idea in that one really shouldn't have to explain that the name > tag > is for the name and the ref tags is for the number, but we are where we > are; > and changing current usage appears likely to encounter resistance from the > usual tedious sludgifiers. > > I'm slightly nervous of officlal_name because it's prone to sludgifiers > (previous message refers). I wonder whether route_name= might work best if > a > reasonable definition were formulated? Something like "The popularly > accepted name (and name only) for the whole route, excluding route number > and geographical/similar qualifiers", illustrated with a set of examples. > Yes, the key's a bit tautologous, but we have thousands of route=bicycle > with route=?cn where the "c" stands for "cycle", so that's already a lost > cause... > > Richard > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Tagging-f5258744.html > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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