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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Based on the wikipedia articles</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway</a></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CanAm_Highway">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CanAm_Highway</a></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It sounds to me like these would be
names of route relations, not names of ways. In my area, sections
of I-95 can have different names like "Blue Star Memorial Highway"
or "Yankee Division Highway" or "New Hampshire Turnpike". IMO
these local names would be the ones used in the "name=*" tag, not
the name a trans-continental route.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">These are some relevant quotes from the
first wikipedia article above: "<span style="color: rgb(34, 34,
34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">In practice
the concept of the Pan-American Highway is more publicly
embraced in Latin American countries than in North America. Much
of the road system in Latin America is explicitly marked as<span> </span></span><i
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Pan-American</i><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span> </span>(commonly<span> </span></span><i
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Vía Panam</i><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span> </span>or<span> </span></span><i
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Vía Panamericana</i><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">)."</span></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">"</span><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important;
float: none;">In Canada, no particular road has been
officially designated as the Pan-American Highway."</span></span></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">"</span><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important;
float: none;">In 1966, the [US] Federal Highway Administration
designated the entire Interstate Highway System part of the
Pan-American Highway System,</span><sup> </sup><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span></span>although this has never
been reflected in any of the official interstate signage."</span></span></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform:
none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important;
float: none;">"The Pan-American Highway is interrupted
between Panama and Colombia by a 100 km (60 mi) stretch of
marshland known as the Darién Gap."</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Have you checked if this person is
trying to rename all of the sections of the CanAm route?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">-Wayne</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/5/2020 11:29 AM, Jack Armstrong
wrote:<br>
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size="2">I'm not an expert in the field of naming U.S.
interstate highways. I'd like some opinions from others with
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;">A new OSM user has just "named" Interstate
25 (I-25) as the "CanAm Highway". As a native Coloradan, I can
say I've never heard anyone refer to I-25 as the CanAm
Highway. There is a Wikipedia page on the name. This highway
might also be referred to as the PanAmerican Highway, but
again, nobody in this region refers to it as such. I suppose
almost all U.S. interstate highways could be "named" the
Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate Highway. A few years ago a
user "named" I-70 and I-25 in Colorado as the "<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway", which I deleted explaining to the user this was not how Coloradans referred to these interstates.</span></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#222222"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before I (gently) approach the new user, what is the best way for this name to be tagged? I assume a relation is not the best answer. I would think alt_name, alt_name_1, alt_name_2, etc., is the best method?</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#222222"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks, Jack Armstrong </span></font></div>
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