[Talk-ca] "Highway X" and the like as names

[Jarek Piórkowski]

The name should be the commonly used name, if any.

So for example in BC, a certain part of Highway 5 is most commonly called
the Coquihalla Highway, so that's what's tagged.

Region of Waterloo's Highway 85/Highway 8/Highway 7 route is most commonly
called the Conestoga Parkway, so that's what's tagged.

But conversely, Highway 401 is most commonly called Highway 401, so that's
what's tagged.

Arguments that the name is composed of a descriptive word and a ref seem
pretty nitpicky. In Paris, arrondissements are named "14e Arrondissement"
even though this is a ref and a descriptive word. And that's before taking
into account that we would then be forcing database users to have a lookup
table where motorways in Quebec are named "Autoroute $ref" while in Ontario
they're "Highway $ref" except for QEW and Gardiner and DVP, and Niagara's
roads are called "Regional Road $ref" while Wellington's are "County Road
$ref". Simpler to just tag the name actually used.

Further in practicalities, a lot of editors really want things to have
names, partially encouraged by some of the tooling (*cough* iD). Removing
name from highways with name would probably result in commonly-used name
being re-added, or official name being added ("Macdonald-Cartier Freeway"
anyone?). And you can't very well tag noname=yes since it does have several
names.

My 2 Ontario cents,
Jarek


On Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 17:50 Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Should we be removing or replacing "Highway x" and the like names as
> redundant with highway number (tagged ref=), as like what is already being
> done south of the border? I've done this with roads in Alberta, either
> removing them or replacing them with range/township road numbers where
> posted (in provinces that follow Dominion land system) or other posted road
> names, or route names as found in trailblazer signs, but some of those
> "names" got restored.
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