[talk-au] Track route names used to name paths

[Mark Pulley]

Using the analogy of highways, the local name would take priority (e.g. name of fire trail), other otherwise-unnamed sections would take the route name.

Doesn’t necessarily apply to tracks of course. When I surveyed the Great North Walk 4 years ago from Cowan to Epping Road https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/88292947 I applied the name to some of the paths. I recall there being wooden signs with the Great North Walk name present, so I took this to be the name of the path.

Mark P.

> On 16 May 2024, at 9:11 PM, cleary <osm at 97k.com> wrote:
> A response to Tony's comment  (but not necessarily relevant to the names of tracks)
> 
> The "higher" name is not necessarily the street name.
> 
> In New South Wales, the local government is the naming authority for street names.  Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) is the authority for designating highways but not the street names.  For example, in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield, the Hume Highway includes Liverpool Road but the official name of the road is Liverpool Road and premises will have Liverpool Road as their address.  The RMS can designate the road as a highway and can signpost the name/number of the highway but the local government posts the formal street name.  In the particular example I have given, the primary name is Liverpool Road.  This principle applies in all the similar instances of which I am aware.
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