[Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

Peter graphhopper at gmx.de
Sun Sep 27 12:33:59 UTC 2015


Hi Martin,

we will then know that there is no real road name and when having the
"routing-engine use case" in mind we can derive a description for the
direction (or via ref) in a localized manner, or via potential surface
tags or relations (official bike routes etc).

Peter

On 27.09.2015 14:22, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> Am 27.09.2015 um 14:17 schrieb Peter <graphhopper at gmx.de>:
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>> So I'll add OSM notes to let others fix this or should I move them directly to official name and leave name empty?
>
> what would we gain from that? I also believe this value should better go into the official_name tag, but what is then the common name? How are people referring to this road (just by ref?)?
>
> cheers 
> Martin 




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