Mar 5, 2020, 17:39 by [email protected]: > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 10:32 AM Jack Armstrong <> [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> I suppose almost all U.S. interstate highways could be "named" the Dwight D. >> Eisenhower Interstate Highway. A few years ago a user "named" I-70 and I-25 >> in Colorado as the ">> Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway", which I deleted >> explaining to the user this was not how Coloradans referred to these >> interstates. >> > > You're conflating the name of single roads with the name of the route system > of which they are members. The name of a route doesn't necessarily, and > often is completely unrelated, to the names of the ways that are members. > The name of the network (in this case, the network is officially called > "Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways") > tends to be even further removed from what individual roads are actually > named. I think there is a tunnel in that network, within Colorado, named for > Eisenhower, though. > > >> Before I (gently) approach the new user, what is the best way for this name >> to be tagged? I assume a relation is not the best answer. I would think >> alt_name, alt_name_1, alt_name_2, etc., is the best method? >> > > For the pan-am/can-am, within the US, I question ground truth veracity, but > open to other opinions. > Note that my posting was about name tagging in general - I have no knowledge whatever and where this specific name should be tagged.
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