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

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 12:59 PM Adam Franco <adamfranco at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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."
>

I'm pretty sure noname=yes with official_name=* set is automatically a
tagging error...that would be the *de facto* name.
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