[OSM-talk] waterway=lock

[wynndale at lavabit.com]

> On 27/08/09 12:13, Jack Stringer wrote:
>
>> lock=yes
>> lock_name=Withrington Bottom Lock
>
> When you are tagging a way, you can't use name= because that will
> already contain the name of the canal. Hence lock_name=.
>
Why would you want to repeat the name of a canal on its individual nodes?
Isn’t that repeating the mistake of the TIGER node tags?