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

[Evin Fairchild]

Totally agree, memorial highway names should be under the official_name=*
tag. Usually nobody calls roads by their memorial name.

-Evin

On Tue, May 26, 2020, 1:56 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > Any feedback is welcome. Thanks :)
> >
> >
> >
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