<p>The unnamed roads for motorways seems like a really big thing to leave as an unnamed road when the motorway name is listed in <code>step.ref</code> without needing to do any text parsing.</p>
<p>To have directions that say <em>"turn left onto unnamed road"</em> when unnamed road is a national highway, seems like a massive oversight, especially when the fix is so easy!</p>
<p>The parsing out of the $east or $west doesn't need to happen, it just makes the output look a lot cleaner.</p>
<p>i.e. <code>Turn left onto Sunbelt Highway (I5)</code> instead of <code>Turn left onto Sunbelt Highway (I5 $east)</code>.</p>
<p>Even leaving it with the $east tag is <strong>much</strong> better than leaving it as <em>unnamed road</em>, although removing the $east tag is better in my opinion although I can understand your reservations.</p>

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