Based on the wikipedia articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CanAm_Highway
It sounds to me like these would be names of route relations, not names
of ways. In my area, sections of I-95 can have different names like
"Blue Star Memorial Highway" or "Yankee Division Highway" or "New
Hampshire Turnpike". IMO these local names would be the ones used in the
"name=*" tag, not the name a trans-continental route.
These are some relevant quotes from the first wikipedia article above:
"In practice the concept of the Pan-American Highway is more publicly
embraced in Latin American countries than in North America. Much of the
road system in Latin America is explicitly marked
as/Pan-American/(commonly/Vía Panam/or/Vía Panamericana/)."
"In Canada, no particular road has been officially designated as the
Pan-American Highway."
"In 1966, the [US] Federal Highway Administration designated the entire
Interstate Highway System part of the Pan-American Highway
System,^although this has never been reflected in any of the official
interstate signage."
"The Pan-American Highway is interrupted between Panama and Colombia by
a 100 km (60 mi) stretch of marshland known as the Darién Gap."
Have you checked if this person is trying to rename all of the sections
of the CanAm route?
-Wayne
On 3/5/2020 11:29 AM, Jack Armstrong wrote:
I'm not an expert in the field of naming U.S. interstate highways. I'd
like some opinions from others with more experience with this.
A new OSM user has just "named" Interstate 25 (I-25) as the "CanAm
Highway". As a native Coloradan, I can say I've never heard anyone
refer to I-25 as the CanAm Highway. There is a Wikipedia page on the
name. This highway might also be referred to as the PanAmerican
Highway, but again, nobody in this region refers to it as such. 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.
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?
Thanks, Jack Armstrong
chachafish
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