[Talk-GB] Motorway junction naming

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Fri Aug 6 17:41:50 BST 2010


Andy Sinclair <andy at ...> writes:

>I notice that a number of motorway junctions near me have been tagged 
>with rather large names.
> 
>For example, the name tag for M4 J16, normally referred to locally as 
>"Swindon West" is:
>
>  "A3102 Swindon West, Wootton Bassett, RAF Lyneham, Calne"
>
>Should this be simplified in some way?

Uh, yeah, I'd suggest that the short name appearing on motorway road signs
be tagged as 'name', and if the other stuff really is a name for this
junction, it go in as alt_name.

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Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>




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