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<div style="16px" text-align="left">Currently description of route is recommended to be mapped in name tag.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">It clearly should be placed in description tag, with name tag used for a name of the route.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I plan on amending Wiki this way, despite that proposal recommended misuses of name tag.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Please comment if such edit would not advisable in your opinion.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">10 May 2019, 12:07 by selfishseahorse@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">Regarding the recent changes (from 6 May 2019) to the wiki page<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">"Public transport" about the misuse of the name tag for route<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">descriptions (e.g. name="701: Samedan Bahnhof - Le Prese Stazione").<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">[1]<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">[1]: <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Public_transport&action=history">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Public_transport&action=history</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I agree that the route description (from - to) is not its name. By the<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">way, the same problem also affects hiking routes. I must admit that<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">i've also misued the name=* tag this way. The reason are the editors:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">if a route is only tagged with ref=*, from=*, to=* (and description=*)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and if more than one route variant or direction uses the same<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">highway=*, one loses track of the routes and it becomes almost<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">impossible to maintain them because editors only display the ref=*<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">value in the relations list (e.g. there were multiple "13").<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I think it were be the best if editors would also display from=* and<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">to* (or, instead, description=*) if there is no name=tag, in order<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">that the name=* tag can be kept for routes that really have a name=*<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(e.g. Via Alpina).<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(I'm sending this email to the tagging mailing list as it doesn't only<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">concern public transportation routes.)<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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