[Tagging] Section numbers in hiking routes

[Peter Elderson]

I am trying to improve on the name-tag mess in the many hiking/foot routes
in Nederland. All kinds of information is packed in those names. I am not
doing any cleaning (yet) until all this information can be stored in proper
tags and is handled or scheduled by significant renderers/data users/tools.
There must be reasons for this (ab)use, because it is done all over the
globe.

It's very common to store <from>-<to> and sometimes <via> in the name tag.
That's an easy one: we have from=*, via=*, to=*.

Sometimes a complete description, a comment or a note (.e.g. about a
temporary detour) is added to the name. Easy: we have description=, note=*,
comment=*.

A ref in the name: store in ref=*.

Another item is *section number*. This is often used when the route is
split in sections, often according to the sectioning given by the
operator/website. So firstly it's a sort of reference, secondly its an
ordering and sorting mechanism.
Sometimes sections have their own name. I see that a lot in international
(super)routes.

Any ideas how to do this without (ab)using the name tag? Is there a proper
tag that springs to mind, or should we invent one?

Peter Elderson
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