[Talk-us] Name tag on unnamed, but numbered routes

[Adam Franco]

>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 1:39 PM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 9:24 AM MoiraPrime via Talk-us <
> talk-us at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> I think this is further complicated by the officially designated name of
>> a road. MS 588 in Mississippi is officially designated as "James Duncan
>> Arrington Memorial highway" or something like that, but putting it in the
>> official name tag throws validator errors.... But it shouldn't be in the
>> main name tag because nobody calls it that. See the issue here?
>
>
> Well, that's be name=James Duncan Arrington Memorial Highway and ref=MS
> 588.
>

For names that are designated but not actually displayed on routing signs
at junctions (maybe only displayed on very few informational signs along
the route) it may be preferable to use official_name=* rather than name.
Example: official_name=James Duncan Arrington Memorial Highway.

>From the wiki: "If an official name is unwieldy or obscure and few people
use it in practice, even if it is signposted, it is better to put the
official name in official_name=* or alt_name=* than to treat it as the
primary name."
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