[Tagging] Section numbers in hiking routes

[Peter Elderson]

Hold on to your hat.... In the name tag I will store...The Name Of The
Route!

Op za 23 mei 2020 om 18:18 schreef Jo <winfixit at gmail.com>:

> In the end, what will be left in the name tag exactly?
>
> Polyglot
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 5:53 PM Peter Elderson <pelderson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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