<div dir="ltr">It seems to me that having a relationship is absolutely appropriate and that it should have the name of entire trail/route, just as you have done.<div><br></div><div>It also seems to me that having a name on individual segments (the local name) is also appropriate. I don't think this is inconsistent and in fact, seems very desirable. Highway 65 (a state route that has an OSM relation, and is named as such in the relation) also has segments in some places that are named "Central Avenue" by the city and locals, and in other places are named "Highway 65", again by the locals.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think labeling the individual segments maps for the renderer primarily. It attaches a local name to the individual way, which is what OSM expects, I believe. It also has rendering advantages, which makes the map more useful to real people, not just cartographers.</div><div><br></div><div>IMHO</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 6:02 AM <<a href="mailto:talk-us-request@openstreetmap.org">talk-us-request@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send Talk-us mailing list submissions to<br>
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From: Nathan Hartley <<a href="mailto:treestryder@gmail.com" target="_blank">treestryder@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Following this thread.<br>
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I have the same question, after recently moving the names that folks had<br>
added to the way (and bridge) segments, of a linear park spanning lower<br>
Michigan, to the relations representing the trail segment. The entire trail<br>
is known as " The Great Lake-to-Lake Trails" [image: relation]<br>
<<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation</a>> 7962984<br>
<<a href="https://osm.org/relation/7962984" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://osm.org/relation/7962984</a>>, whereas it has segments known by other<br>
names. For instance, 22 miles are also known as the "Mike Levine Lakelands<br>
Trail State Park" [image: relation]<br>
<<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation</a>> 272564<br>
<<a href="https://osm.org/relation/272564" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://osm.org/relation/272564</a>>. I felt this was the most accurate way to<br>
map this trail. However, the temptation is strong to "map for the<br>
renderer", after seeing the trail names disappear from the rendered map<br>
<<a href="https://www.cyclosm.org/#map=13/42.4667/-84.0681/cyclosm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cyclosm.org/#map=13/42.4667/-84.0681/cyclosm</a>>.<br>
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 6:55 PM Mike Thompson <<a href="mailto:miketho16@gmail.com" target="_blank">miketho16@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Let's say you have a trail in the US National Forest that was specifically<br>
> created for mountain biking. It has a name and a FS trail number. It is<br>
> represented in OSM by three ways currently: before a bridge, the bridge,<br>
> and after the bridge.<br>
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> Is this a good candidate for a route relation?<br>
> Should name=* tag appear just on the relation, or on all of the member<br>
> ways as well?<br>
> Should ref=* tag appear just on the relation, or on all of the members as<br>
> well?<br>
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> I am assuming that physical and legal access tags should only appear on<br>
> the member ways, even if every member has the same value, right?<br>
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> Just don't want to break anything...<br>
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> Mike<br>
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