[Talk-us] Relation template for an honorary/memorial highway?

[Joseph Eisenberg]

Only real, current features should be mapped, but it's possible to add
"official names" even if they are not the commonly used name, as long as
they are documented on signs.

It looks like some of these are historic only:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt_International_Highway -
historic, no longer exists

And the Pan-American Highway system officially includes all the Interstates
in the United States, but has no signage. So there is not an appropriate
way to map this in OpenStreetMap:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway#Contiguous_48_states_of_the_United_States

But these can probably be tagged as "official_name=Ronald Reagan Highway":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Highway

– Joseph Eisenberg

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:15 PM Jack Armstrong <jacknstacy at sprynet.com>
wrote:
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> More than once in the past, users have attempted to “name” highways in
Colorado as the “CanAm Highway”, the “Pan-American Highway”, the “Ronald
Reagan Memorial Highway” and the “Theodore Roosevelt International
Highway”, to name a few. There are other honorary/memorial highway
designations in the area.
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> In order to satisfy persons who want to map these and other memorial
highways that aren’t actually named “on the ground” here, I’m thinking
relations might be created. This way, when this situation undoubtedly comes
up again, I can point the user to the relation and more easily resolve any
conflicts.
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> Any suggestions as to the relation template I should use? I looked at the
interstate highway relation wiki and it doesn’t seem to be quite right. For
example, it requires a ref - number only.
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> I suppose, where appropriate, a different relation should be created for
each state the memorial highway passes through? Which network relation or
super relation should these memorial route relations be tied into?
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> Any feedback is welcome. Thanks :)
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