<div dir="auto"><div>In Ontario highways have names found in government data and are signed with those names, so I'd keep them here. The number is simply a reference number to the actual full name, or in the case of the QEW a short form for the full name. </div><div dir="auto">-Kevin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed., Jan. 19, 2022, 5:58 p.m. Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca, <<a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">No. It is the rendering engine job’s to remove it if it chooses to. But we must include it. It is not possible to infer how a road is designated ie road, highway, parkway, street, avenue etc. This is meaningful info to include. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Martin Chalifoux<div><b>E</b> <a href="mailto:martin.chalifoux@icloud.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">martin.chalifoux@icloud.com</a></div><div><b>C</b> 514-233-9701</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 19, 2022, at 17:50, Jherome Miguel <<a href="mailto:jheromemiguel@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jheromemiguel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Should we be removing or replacing "Highway x" and the like names as redundant with highway number (tagged ref=), as like what is already being done south of the border? I've done this with roads in Alberta, either removing them or replacing them with range/township road numbers where posted (in provinces that follow Dominion land system) or other posted road names, or route names as found in trailblazer signs, but some of those "names" got restored.
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