I am trying to improve on the name-tag mess in the many hiking/foot routes in Nederland. All kinds of information is packed in those names. I am not doing any cleaning (yet) until all this information can be stored in proper tags and is handled or scheduled by significant renderers/data users/tools. There must be reasons for this (ab)use, because it is done all over the globe.
It's very common to store <from>-<to> and sometimes <via> in the name tag. That's an easy one: we have from=*, via=*, to=*. Sometimes a complete description, a comment or a note (.e.g. about a temporary detour) is added to the name. Easy: we have description=, note=*, comment=*. A ref in the name: store in ref=*. Another item is *section number*. This is often used when the route is split in sections, often according to the sectioning given by the operator/website. So firstly it's a sort of reference, secondly its an ordering and sorting mechanism. Sometimes sections have their own name. I see that a lot in international (super)routes. Any ideas how to do this without (ab)using the name tag? Is there a proper tag that springs to mind, or should we invent one? Peter Elderson
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