[Tagging] Deprecate ref=* on ways

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM Rob Savoye via Tagging <
> tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>>   Many are more than a few hundred meters sometimes many kilometers
>>
> Based on my experience this is true, and, as Rob has said, the name and
> the ref don't always go together, e.g. at an intersection the name may be
> applied to the track going to the right, and the ref may be applied to the
> track going to the left.  This also happens with USFS trails.  Also, one
> physical track may have both a road number and a trail number!
>

Sounds like the name goes on the way, the ref on the relation.
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