[OSM-talk] Named passages on hiking paths

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2011/3/14 Steve Doerr <steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk>:
> On 14/03/2011 20:34, Phil Endecott wrote:
> I think the OP's problem is a particular example of a more general problem,
> of tagging a particular stretch of a way with a specific name which doesn't
> negate the name of the way as a whole. You get that with terraces, parades,
> etc. on roads, with reaches of a river, and no doubt with other features as
> well.


yes, this also occurs sometimes on bridges and squares: the way
although keeping its name gets additionally another name while running
on this feature.

cheers,
Martin