[Tagging] Route names, and section order in superroutes

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 18, 2022, 13:04 by pelderson at gmail.com:

> We have talked in the past about the name tag in route names. It often contains non-name elements. This appears to be driven by how people want to see the routes displayed in lists. 
> From, To, Via, Ref, Purpose, Region, and Part numbers are popular elements. These elements are layed out to produce alphabetically ordered and 'pretty print' route list in applications and maintenance tools.
> Understandable, but not conform the 'name=just the name' principle, which is important for clean data and for a.o. Nominatim. 
>  
> To clean this up, From, To, Via, Ref can go in the well-known from=*, via=*, to=*, and ref=* tags. Region, Purpose (e.g. "German part of the GR5"), can be moved to description=*.
>
+1, editors can display identifiers of relations based on such tags
Fake name tags should not be added, this lowers quality of data and is 
form of mistagging for renderer.

> I think OSM Carto uses displays the name tag and object Id for all relations.
>
As far as I remember, only relations displayed by OSM Carto are 
(1) areas (=multipolygons) and their ids are not displayed at all.
(2) boundary relations (basically, also areas) - and their ids are not displayed at all

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Standard_tile_layer
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