A response to Tony's comment (but not necessarily relevant to the names of tracks)
The "higher" name is not necessarily the street name. In New South Wales, the local government is the naming authority for street names. Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) is the authority for designating highways but not the street names. For example, in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield, the Hume Highway includes Liverpool Road but the official name of the road is Liverpool Road and premises will have Liverpool Road as their address. The RMS can designate the road as a highway and can signpost the name/number of the highway but the local government posts the formal street name. In the particular example I have given, the primary name is Liverpool Road. This principle applies in all the similar instances of which I am aware. On Thu, 16 May 2024, at 8:23 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: > Hi Warin > > I would expect the highest order entity, the longest or biggest > entity, to be the primary name. For example the Hume Highway will > include a lot of High Streets, Station Streets or Main streets of > country towns. In my mind its first the Hume Highway and secondly High > Street wherever. I havent given it a lot of thought, its just how it > feels. > > Tony > >> HI, >> >> On some paths route signs have been used to 'name' the path. >> >> >> One example is the 'Great North Walk', a Sydney to Newcastle walking >> route, where many of the paths existed before the route was created. I >> think this is a combination of mistaking the route signage as the track >> name and route relations not rendering. >> >> >> In the Blue Mountains some paths have more than one OSM way - each with >> different 'name', at least some of these are routes that may, I repeat >> may, not be the true path name. >> >> >> Example >> >> Way 1199677262 - 'Grand Clifftop Walk' >> >> Way 22761613 - 'Overcliff Track' Note NPWS route 'Overcliff-Undercliff >> track' .. the over cliff track is mapped separately in OSM. A route >> relation could be made with both these tracks and a website link.. >> >> -------------------------- >> >> In the Blue Mts where there are overlayed ways and one of them is a >> route I think it would be best to remove that way and include the >> remaining way in a route relation .. I think most of this is the 'Great >> Cliff Top Walk' route and that would then remove the double overlayed >> ways. . >> >> >> Thoughts/comments ??? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> Talk-au@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> >> _____________________________________________________ >> This mail has been virus scanned by Australia On Line >> see http://www.australiaonline.net.au/mailscanning > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
