Remove the name of the way, put a name on each relations. Except if it makes 
sense to keep the name also on the way for whatever reason you see fit. 

Le 30 décembre 2022 18:06:12 GMT+01:00, Dave F via Tagging 
<tagging@openstreetmap.org> a écrit :
>What do you do if there are two routes?
>
>DaveF
>
>On 30/12/2022 02:19, brad wrote:
>> +1
>> If the only name is the route name I think it makes good sense to put it on 
>> the local way too, that's the name of the trail.
>> 
>> Brad
>> 
>> On 12/29/22 08:59, Zeke Farwell wrote:
>>> I've heard the assertion that a way has no name but the route that passes 
>>> over it does many times.  While this is true in some cases, in others it is 
>>> not.  Where the primary purpose of the way is not for the route, this does 
>>> make sense.  For example mentioned by Jmapb where the Appalachian trail 
>>> follows an unnamed driveway or sidewalk.  In these cases, the primary 
>>> purpose is a driveway or sidewalk for local use, and the Appalachian Trail 
>>> just happens to follow it as well.  Here putting the name Appalachian Trail 
>>> on the way makes no sense.  However, there are also dedicated sections of 
>>> trail built first and foremost to be a part of the Appalachian Trail and 
>>> that have no other name.  Omitting the name Appalachian Trail in a case 
>>> like that makes no sense to me.  That section of trail is indeed called the 
>>> Appalachian Trail.  The whole route is also called the Appalachian Trail 
>>> and that's ok.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 10:38 AM Jmapb <jm...@gmx.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     On 12/29/2022 10:13 AM, Zeke Farwell wrote:
>>>>     Yes, the way name tag should be the most local trail name. 
>>>>     However, sometimes there is no local trail name and the long
>>>>     distance route name is the only name.  In this case putting the
>>>>     long distance route name on the ways also makes sense.
>>> 
>>>     I've been doing some mapping on the Appalachian Trail lately and
>>>     this appears to be the common practice, although the AT is
>>>     dominant enough that constituent trails sometimes lose their
>>>     local names over time.
>>> 
>>>     Some mappers will take it a little too far and tag sections of
>>>     sidewalk and driveway that the AT follows with name=Appalachian
>>>     Trail (or even name=Appalachian National Scenic Trail... IMO this
>>>     is an official_name, and probably only belongs on the route
>>>     superrelation.)
>>> 
>>>     It's common to see ref=AT as well, which is fine on trails (even
>>>     locally named ones) and perhaps ok on the sidewalks, but adding
>>>     it to a vehicular road seems iffy.
>>> 
>>>     Jason
>>> 
>>> 
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