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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Paul, hi John,<br>
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On 27.09.2015 14:46, Paul Johnson wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:21 AM,
Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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we've detecting more and more long names for highways,
like I once<br>
reported here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/karussell/diary/26055"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/karussell/diary/26055</a><br>
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One example:<br>
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href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/51109811"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/51109811</a><br>
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As discussed there the names are from official source, but
should we<br>
really include this in the name tag?<br>
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<div>Those look more like descriptions based on what
Google's translating them as (since they seem to be route
descriptions similar to what was badly imported from
Oregon DOT in some parts of Oregon a couple years ago and
not the working names of the road). Keep in mind that
there are some <i>redonkulously</i> long values for
name=* that are actually valid, though. Pretty much
anything named after Martin Luther King, Junior is likely
to result in a long name in the US, but some places tend
to push this farther (Oklahoma, for example, has made it a
policy recently to render highway naming irrelevant as it
chops roads with formerly contiguous names into shorter
sections with seemingly increasingly long names; with the
longest ones usually being named after deceased veterans
of the Afghan War and Iraq War from the city the highway
got renamed in, ranging in length from a single overpass
to an entire border-to-border highway).</div>
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When using a ~250 char limit we see only these longish names in
Russian language area, but sure, we have to deal with long names for
other 'shorter' but still long names.<br>
Still here I don't think they should go into the name tag as they
describe a direction.<br>
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> I was using official_name=* for this already (like stores with
ridiculously long names)<br>
> - I just realized this might be completely undocumented. <br>
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The official name tag is documented in the wiki (or did you mean
sth. else?)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Key_Variations">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Key_Variations</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
Peter<br>
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