Yeah, I agree, it is redundant and thus completely unnecessary to put the highway number in the name tag. Have you informed SSR_317 about this discussion?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 7:09 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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