From: Albert Pundt <[email protected]> Subject: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc. To: "[email protected] Openstreetmap" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:06:50 -0400 (10 hours, 17 minutes, 15 seconds ago) Attachment: [3. text/html]...
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. Seconded or thirded: a route number is not an actual name and does not belong in the name tag, or even alt_name. This has come up (in discussion, not actual edits as far as I know) because there are some roads in Massachusetts that have actual names and route numbers (example: name="Grand Army of the Republic Highway" ref="US 6"), but for reasons unknown there are street addresses like "3570 Route 6". Even though there is zero evidence that "Route 6" is is any way a street name. As far as I know this is limited to on the order of a half dozen roads, 1 US highway and about 5 state highways, mainly in the southeast and cape. So beyond agreeing that sticking things in name (presumably on the notion that everything should have a name, even though that notion is confused as the real world does not have that property), I wanted to point out that just because a building near a road has an *address* with a name, doesn't mean that the road itself has that name.
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