[OSM-talk] Interstate naming in the United States

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Thu Mar 5 16:44:44 UTC 2020




Mar 5, 2020, 17:39 by baloo at ursamundi.org:

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> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 10:32 AM Jack Armstrong <> jacknstacy at sprynet.com> > wrote:
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>> I suppose almost all U.S. interstate highways could be "named" the Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate Highway. A few years ago a user "named" I-70 and I-25 in Colorado as the ">> Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway", which I deleted explaining to the user this was not how Coloradans referred to these interstates.
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> You're conflating the name of single roads with the name of the route system of which they are members.  The name of a route doesn't necessarily, and often is completely unrelated, to the names of the ways that are members.  The name of the network (in this case, the network is officially called "Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways") tends to be even further removed from what individual roads are actually named.  I think there is a tunnel in that network, within Colorado, named for Eisenhower, though.
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>> Before I (gently) approach the new user, what is the best way for this name to be tagged? I assume a relation is not the best answer. I would think alt_name, alt_name_1, alt_name_2, etc., is the best method?
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> For the pan-am/can-am, within the US, I question ground truth veracity, but open to other opinions.
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Note that my posting was about name tagging in general - I have no knowledge whatever and
where this specific name should be tagged.
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