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

[Warin]

On 17/10/23 04:17, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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.


I don't find it common in 'my area' of mapping. One or two examples 
would demonstrate the situation?


In any case:

The name tag is used on may things for example; buildings, parks, 
schools, highways ...

The use of the name tag as 'name only' applies where ever the name tag 
is used. This is similar for other tags such as elevation, width, colour 
etc. No matter what feature they are used on the tags carry the same 
characteristics and restrictions. It is not necessary to repeat 
these characteristics and restrictions for every main feature.


>
> 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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