<div dir="auto"><div>So in your example of a house address I personally would fall back on the official Canada Post mailing address and use that highway name for the name or is that too simple?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 9:46 PM Jherome Miguel, <<a href="mailto:jheromemiguel@gmail.com">jheromemiguel@gmail.com</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">I’m talking about predominant usage to record in the name=* tag, which can be uncertain, and you might want a name that should be the most useful for the most data users. In this situation, you got some name in addition to "Highway X". Sometimes, those names are commonly used (e.g. Trans-Canada, QE2, Yellowhead, Anthony Henday), and in others, its just the number (as in my local examples; the road has name[s] but is more commonly referred to by number). The name is on signs at intersections, interchanges or on-/off-ramps or the trailblazer at about every 20 km, but locals will use the highway number for directions or rural addressing. I did replace cases of "Highway X" across Alberta, but the address signs may say something as "1234 Highway X", and/or the locals will use the highway number for wayfinding.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 6:59 PM John Whelan <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
<div text="#000000">Local usage can be difficult to define. I
might refer to things differently than perhaps my neighbour does and
again it might depend whom I'm speaking to as to which term I might use.<br>
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<span>Jherome Miguel wrote on 1/22/2022 6:56 PM:</span><br>
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<div dir="auto">Continuing on, I would like to also bring up cases of
some highways in Alberta that got also their own names. While most would
generally have a number only, there are also plenty of those highways
that got names (range/township road names aside) for whole or parts of,
posted in either normal signs, trailblazer, or special shield, such as:</div>
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<div dir="auto">- Highway 1: Trans-Canada Highway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 2 through Calgary: Deerfoot Trail</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 2 Calgary-Edmonton: Queen Elizabeth 2
Highway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 2 Grimshaw-Athabasca and Highway 55:
Northern Woods and Water Route (NWWR)</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 3: Crowsnest Highway</div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="border-color:rgb(0,0,0)">- </span><span style="border-color:rgb(0,0,0)">Highway 5 Waterton NP-Cardston, Highway 6
Pincher Creek-Waterton NP, and </span><span style="border-color:rgb(0,0,0)">Highway 21: Cowboy Trail</span></div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 11 Icefields Parkway–Red Deer: David
Thompson Highway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 14: Poundmaker Trail</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 16: Yellowhead Highway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 16A from west of Stony Plain to Edmonton
city limit: Parkland Highway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 33: Grizzly Trail</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 35: McKenzie Highway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 36: Veterans Memorial Highway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 40: Hinton–Grande Prairie: Bighorn Highway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 60: Devonian Way</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 88: Bicentennial Highway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 93 BC border–TCH interchange:
Banff-Windermere Highway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 93 Lake Louise-Jasper: Icefields Parkway</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 201: Stoney and Tsuutina Trails</div>
<div dir="auto">- Highway 216: Anthony Henday Drive</div>
<div dir="auto"><br></div>
<div dir="auto">While most of those names have been added in OSM, the
problem however is they sometimes conflict with actual local usage.
While some of those names have been in common usage, the most known
being Trans-Canada (sometimes shortened to TCH), the Deerfoot and Queen
Elizabeth II Highway (also shortened to "QE2"), the Yellowhead, the
Mackenzie Highway, the Icefields Parkway (and also most highways within
Banff), and both Stoney Trail and Anthony Henday (almost never referred
by number locally), I would like to point that some highways that got
names are sometimes better known locally by their number than their
name. For example, Highway 16A, in my local area, is named Parkland
Highway, but is almost always called Highway 16A, even in Stony Plain
and Spruce Grove. The Edmonton portion of Highway 16A is named Stony
Plain Road (and 100 Ave on one-way eastbound approach to Anthony Henday)
and always referred to as such. I can say the same for Devonian Way,
which is always called Highway 60. For the other cases, local input from
fellow Albertans is needed.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Also another thing especially in rural Alberta is
highways may be locally posted with a range/township road number. I
sometimes used those names to replace "Highway X" where posted, but like
with the case of highways with special names mentioned above, it may
not necessarily follow actual local usage.</div>
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