[OSM-talk] Name tags on sidewalks and on cycleways next to a road

[Lester Caine]

Lauri Kytömaa wrote:
> Having read the oldest talk archives few years back, it has been a
> common understanding that only the road, which these cycleways run
> along, is named with name=*, yet it's not explicitly stated anywhere.
> Some disagree, as I have learned in the last half year.
>
> I'm writing this, because now (yesterday) the German documentation
> for Tag:highway=cycleway was changed to recommend always adding the
> name of the parallel road to the cycleway, even regardless of the
> distance. It's a big change that needs to be at least discussed,
> and my attempt on the wiki to direct "the other side" to start a
> discussion there, or preferably on the lists, was reverted. This is
> a more fundamental question than a "what tags to use", so I've posted
> this initial message on the talk list.
SNIP
> * There isn't a "cycleway with the name X Street", but "cycleway
> along the road with the name X street".<- This is the fundamental
> question on how to model the cycleways in question.

The main process that has not yet been agreed is how to combine information at 
different zoom levels. 'relations' simply do not fit the bill properly, so we 
need some way of flagging the 'highest' level structure - the road with it's 
name - but then linking the lower level fine detail to that top level structure. 
The edge cases will be is the verge part of the road or the surrounding 
property, but that sort of fine detail is not going to be a problem when one is 
trying to identify the footpath, cycleway and vehicle ways related to 'big wide 
boulevard'. Adding 'big wide boulevard' to every element and then trying to work 
from lots of replicated data is just wrong? And creating an area covering the 
whole fine detail and working from that is also wrong? 'big wide boulevard' is 
the entity, and just needs a high level tag, and the lower level detail should 
just reference that?

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