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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/21/2013 09:12 AM, Glenn Plas
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<blockquote cite="mid:51C3FCC4.2070505@byte-consult.be" type="cite">On
06/20/2013 03:35 PM, Marc Gemis wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I am under the impression that the
designation key is misused a lot in Belgium. It's used for
descriptions, notes, names, etc. (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/nW">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/nW</a> )
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It's hardly used for its intended purpose:
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The tag designation=* is used to record the legal classification
of a way.
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(see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation</a>
UK-only ?.)
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Or is there another definition/use of designation that I'm not
aware of ?
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You're right about the use, I even see I misused it myself in my
first edits even thought I understand the use as described now.
So, I'm correcting now. tx for the overpass query, makes it easy
to fix this.
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I fixed some (see changeset
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<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16639881">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16639881</a>
). There is some info that you just can't throw away to fix the tag
use, I tried selecting appropriate keys(most work was re-keying the
info) to keys like operator, name, note or ref. For example : the
airport buildings used designation to put some interesting
information on the buildings and it differs from the already chosen
name , see <a
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/136459078">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/136459078</a>
. I parked that info in 'ref' keys.<br>
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Some information you just need to get rid of as it duplicates other
keys. There are a few in that bbox that I left alone, there is node
1858449632. Someone with more experience on 'archeological' tagging
than me should do this.<br>
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Glenn<br>
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