[Tagging] Proposal: Use description instead of name for route relations

[Paul Johnson]

Presently, it's common for route relations to have names that violate "name
is only the name" and "name is not ref" and "name is not description" rules
for name=* tags.

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023, 10:24 Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could you give some more examples to illustrate what the problem is that
> you want to resolve.
>
>
> On Sun, 8 Oct 2023, 00:23 Kevin Kenny, <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 4:50 PM Andrew Hain <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have started a new proposal: that the name tag should be restricted to
>>> the same meaning for route relations that it has on other elements and that
>>> the description tag should be used otherwise.
>>>
>>
>> The proposal is unclear and appears to deprecate route and way names of a
>> form that are common around here for what I consider to be good reasons.
>> (In any case, 'description' appears to be an inappropriate tag for whatever
>> it is you are proposing.) More details on the talk page.
>> --
>> 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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