Re: [Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

One thing that you are likely to find is that some highways will have multiple names in local use. For example, if a highway with an official name of Route X leads from town Alpha to town Bravo, people in town Alpha are likely to refer to it both as Route X and also as the Bravo Road. People

Re: [Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

Hi Dave, hi Warin, exactly my thoughts. See also again the comments on my diary: these names seem to be official ones. So I'll add OSM notes to let others fix this or should I move them directly to official name and leave name empty? (I've no local knowledge there :)) Kind Regards, Peter On

Re: [Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

Peter, >Should I move them directly to official name and leave name empty? That's the question. Without local knowledge any guess you make is only that, a guess. If you change it having your particular needs in mind, you might be accused of bringing a bias into the decision. We English-speaking

Re: [Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

Google translate shows this for the name: Moscow - Maloyaroslavets - Roslavl to the border with the Republic of Belarus (Bobruisk, Slutsk) "- Spas-Demensk - Elnya - Pochinok" - Byvalki - Shirkova Looks like the destination is included in the name. Surely nobody uses that long tongue-twister in

Re: [Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

I was using official_name=* for this already (like stores with ridiculously long names) - I just realized this might be completely undocumented. Javbw > On Sep 27, 2015, at 8:37 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 27/09/2015 8:21 PM, Peter wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> we've detecting

Re: [Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

Hi, if you search on osm.org for Республикой Беларусь then you get lots** of similar namings from the same user, all having kind of a direction (from Moscow to XY) inside the name. I've contacted the editor to join this discussion here and what she/he thinks about that the direction should

Re: [Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

sent from a phone > Am 27.09.2015 um 14:17 schrieb Peter : > > So I'll add OSM notes to let others fix this or should I move them directly > to official name and leave name empty? what would we gain from that? I also believe this value should better go into the

Re: [Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

Hi Paul, hi John, On 27.09.2015 14:46, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Peter > wrote: > > Hi all, > > we've detecting more and more long names for highways, like I once > reported here: