[Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

Peter graphhopper at gmx.de
Sun Sep 27 12:17:16 UTC 2015


Hi Dave, hi Warin,

exactly my thoughts. See also again the comments on my diary: these
names seem to be official ones.

So I'll add OSM notes to let others fix this or should I move them
directly to official name and leave name empty? (I've no local knowledge
there :))

Kind Regards,
Peter

On 27.09.2015 14:12, Dave Swarthout wrote:
> Google translate shows this for the name:
>
> Moscow - Maloyaroslavets - Roslavl to the border with the Republic of
> Belarus (Bobruisk, Slutsk) "- Spas-Demensk - Elnya - Pochinok" -
> Byvalki - Shirkova
>
> Looks like the destination is included in the name. Surely nobody uses
> that long tongue-twister in everyday conversation.
>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 27/09/2015 8:21 PM, Peter wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         we've detecting more and more long names for highways, like I once
>         reported here:
>         http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/karussell/diary/26055
>
>         One example:
>         https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/51109811
>
>         As discussed there the names are from official source, but
>         should we
>         really include this in the name tag?
>
>
>     Why not put it as the alternate name? This way the 'official name'
>     is recorded for all to see.
>
>     The name= I'd use would be what the locals call it .. or what is
>     on a sign post. It won't be long (I'd think).
>
>
>         I've posted this to the OSM forum already and there seem to be
>         a bit
>         controversial answers :)
>         http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=50717
>
>         But I agree with 'SomeoneElse' that description should not go
>         into the name.
>         What is common sense here?
>
>
>     Descriptions do not go into the name tag.
>     But if the 'official name' is that then it goes in.
>
>     If it has no name then there are tags for that too! key:noname=yes
>     http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noname
>
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