When these names were first gazetted they included the route number in the name.
They corrected it in a subsequent gazette to just the names. I think that's the best and generally aligns with ground truth. Ian. > On 7 Sep 2014, at 4:10 pm, Mark Pulley <mrpul...@lizzy.com.au> wrote: > > When the new alphanumeric route numbers in NSW were unveiled, some of the > motorways were renamed (e.g. Sydney-Newcastle Freeway became Pacific > Motorway, South-Western Motorway became Hume Motorway). > > In OSM these all have the new route number included in the road name (e.g. > name=M4 Western Motorway, rather than name=Western Motorway). > > The signs on these roads don’t include the route number as part of the name. > > Does anyone object if I rename these roads without the route number (route > number will remain in the ref=* tag)? Or is there a good reason for the route > number to remain in the name tag? > > Mark P. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
