[Tagging] roads with many names

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Mon Aug 19 02:51:08 UTC 2019


On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:16 AM Rob Savoye <rob at senecass.com> wrote:

>   Where I live in rural Colorado, many of the roads have 3 names. The
> county designated one like "CR 2", but often have an alternate name
> everyone uses like "Corkscrew Gulch Road", and then many have a US
> Forest Service designation like "FS 729.2B". I usually use the common
> name as the 'name' tag, and the USFS designation as the 'alt_name' tag.
> I kindof would like to include the county name as well. I do see a lot
> of roads use 'name_1', but that gets flagged often by validation. So my
> question is, how to I tag all three road names appropriately ?
>

refs aren't names, they're refs.  ref=CR 2 and ref=FS 729.2B are
appropriate.
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