[OSM-talk-be] designation key

[Glenn Plas]

On 06/20/2013 03:35 PM, Marc Gemis wrote:
> I am under the impression that the designation key is misused a lot in 
> Belgium. It's used for descriptions, notes, names, etc. (see 
> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/nW )
>
> It's hardly used for its intended purpose:
>
> The tag designation=* is used to record the legal classification of a way.
> (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation   UK-only ?.)
>
> Or is there another definition/use of designation that I'm not aware of ?
>

You're right about the use, I even see I misused it myself in my first 
edits even thought I understand the use as described now.  So, I'm 
correcting now.   tx for the overpass query, makes it easy to fix this.

Glenn