[Tagging] Names on relations and not component ways

[Toby Murray]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Werner Hoch <werner.ho at gmx.de> wrote:
> AFAIR there's currently no relation type that inherits it's tags to the
> member ways, so that the name tags are rendered on the map.

Relations with type=multipolygon render the name tag on the map.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1530467

> Road routes do not inherit there ref tags to the highways,
> associatedStreets do not inherit there street name to the highway
> segments. Those relations use duplicate tags, too.

There are efforts to render highway shields in the US based on network
and ref tags of highways.

Toby