[Tagging] Misuse of name tag for route description

[Markus]

On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 01:08, Johnparis <okosm at johnfreed.com> wrote:
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> This discussion should properly have begun on one of the specialized transit discussion lists, where people with experience can offer insight, rather than a general tagging discussion. Tagging a bus route is not the same as tagging a hiking route, nor a mountain range, nor a stand of trees.

At least in Switzerland, where whe have countless of hiking routes [1]
(every yellow, red or blue line on the map belongs to a hiking route),
mapping them is very similar to mapping a bus route. There's the same
problem with multiple routes using the same road or path. [2] (I split
the routes at every possible intermediate locations, otherwise there
were a lot more route relations sharing the same way.)

[1]: https://map.geo.admin.ch/?lang=en&topic=ech&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe&layers=ch.swisstopo.zeitreihen,ch.bfs.gebaeude_wohnungs_register,ch.bav.haltestellen-oev,ch.swisstopo.swisstlm3d-wanderwege&layers_visibility=false,false,false,true&layers_timestamp=18641231,,,
[2]: https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#routelist?ids=8325230,8332578,8335238

> I go by the rule "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." What is "broken" by the existing setup?

It is broken, because it's not clear anymore what are real route names
(e.g. "Jubilee Line" or "Via Alpina") and what are descriptions.

Regards

Markus