Yes, this is correct. name=* is only the name. Ideally, the ref=* tag should be *supplemental* to a proper route relation at this point (especially in Indiana, where I am aware of a *nine-way* concurrency, something ref=* just doesn't handle very elegantly at all in even the slightest stretch of the imagination.
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 9:08 PM Albert Pundt <roadsgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I notice the user SSR_317 has been adding the route numbers of unnamed > roads to the name=* tag of roads around Indianapolis. For example, > name=Interstate > 465, name=US 31, name=State Route 37, etc. Isn't this practice frowned > upon as being redundant and not reflecting the lack of a proper name to the > road? This seems to be the case around the country. All route numbers were > listed in alternate names of the roads in the original TIGER data, but the > vast majority of these have been removed in favor of route relations and > ref=* tags. > > I removed these name tags from the affected roads, but the user has since > re-added them. > > —Albert Pundt > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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