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

[Mark Pulley]

> On 18 May 2024, at 5:36 PM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/5/24 00:10, Mark Pulley wrote:
>> I’ve just uploaded a changeset deleting the overlapping ways for the Grand Clifftop Walk.
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/151456052
> Thanks Mark. That is quite a bit of work.
> 
> I would have done it later in a week or two, just to make certain there were no objections.
> 
> I started the Grand Cliff Top Walk relation so as to get it on https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#route?id=17595958&type=relation&map=15.0/-33.7223/150.3398
> 
> then I came across the overlapping ways ...
> 
> My thoughts are ...
> 
> You have to be very careful with using 'route signs' to name paths. 
> 
> Without knowledge the path name may not be the route name, so I would not tag the path with the name unless I could verified it.
> 
I wasn’t sure if this last section was a general comment or specifically for this changeset.
In this case, apart from deleting the duplicate 'Grand Cliff Top Walk’ ways, I left the other ways as they were without changing names (apart from splitting some ways to allow for the relation to work).

Mark P.

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