[Tagging] Misuse of name tag for route description

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 12. May 2019, at 09:26, Markus <selfishseahorse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'll file enhancement requests to the editors as soon as we find a
> consensus. Currently, it seems that for hiking routes, using the
> description tag instead of the name tag for route descriptions is
> undispued, but, oddly, for public transportation routes it is not.


If we were to use description in a formalized way (A to B, or A to B via C), where would we put actual free form descriptions ?

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:description

“The description=* tag can be used to provide additional information about the related element to the end map user, possibly using a pop-up or similar. Text should be kept short; a few words or perhaps one to three sentences at most. Longer information can be provided by tagging a link to Wikipedia or other external website”


this doesn’t look as if it was the right tag for what we want to tag here 


Cheers, Martin 
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