[talk-au] Question - names of motorways leaving Sydney

Andrew Harvey andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 11:42:53 UTC 2014


On 7 September 2014 16:10, Mark Pulley <mrpulley at lizzy.com.au> wrote:
> When the new alphanumeric route numbers in NSW were unveiled, some of the motorways were renamed (e.g. Sydney-Newcastle Freeway became Pacific Motorway, South-Western Motorway became Hume Motorway).
>
> In OSM these all have the new route number included in the road name (e.g. name=M4 Western Motorway, rather than name=Western Motorway).
>
> The signs on these roads don’t include the route number as part of the name.
>
> Does anyone object if I rename these roads without the route number (route number will remain in the ref=* tag)? Or is there a good reason for the route number to remain in the name tag?

I support you renaming these so long as you keep the ref there.

But also keen to hear from others if there is a reason against this change.



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