[Tagging] Misuse of name tag for route description

[Paul Allen]

On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 14:38, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > On 12. May 2019, at 14:03, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > a red house is named "The Red House" and
> > eventually just "Red House."
>
>
> speaking of names, there is also a fraction of mappers who would put
> name=‘Red’ because there is already building=house and they don’t put name
> parts that are describing the kind of thing ;-)
>

That's just silly.  The correct thing to do is omit the name completely and
use building=red_house.

-- 
Paul
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