Totally agree, memorial highway names should be under the official_name=* tag. Usually nobody calls roads by their memorial name.
-Evin On Tue, May 26, 2020, 1:56 PM Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Only real, current features should be mapped, but it's possible to add > "official names" even if they are not the commonly used name, as long as > they are documented on signs. > > It looks like some of these are historic only: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt_International_Highway - > historic, no longer exists > > And the Pan-American Highway system officially includes all the > Interstates in the United States, but has no signage. So there is not an > appropriate way to map this in OpenStreetMap: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway#Contiguous_48_states_of_the_United_States > > But these can probably be tagged as "official_name=Ronald Reagan Highway": > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Highway > > – Joseph Eisenberg > > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:15 PM Jack Armstrong <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > More than once in the past, users have attempted to “name” highways in > Colorado as the “CanAm Highway”, the “Pan-American Highway”, the “Ronald > Reagan Memorial Highway” and the “Theodore Roosevelt International > Highway”, to name a few. There are other honorary/memorial highway > designations in the area. > > > > > > In order to satisfy persons who want to map these and other memorial > highways that aren’t actually named “on the ground” here, I’m thinking > relations might be created. This way, when this situation undoubtedly comes > up again, I can point the user to the relation and more easily resolve any > conflicts. > > > > > > Any suggestions as to the relation template I should use? I looked at > the interstate highway relation wiki and it doesn’t seem to be quite right. > For example, it requires a ref - number only. > > > > > > I suppose, where appropriate, a different relation should be created for > each state the memorial highway passes through? Which network relation or > super relation should these memorial route relations be tied into? > > > > > > Any feedback is welcome. Thanks :) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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