[Talk-us] named links

Hello all, I want to open a discussion with you about how a *_link should look like. I've encountered in Oklahoma a lot of named links, and from what I know links should not have name (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_link). I've discussed with Paul Johnson

Re: [Talk-us] named links

While I don't have "a dog in this fight," I also read our wiki which says "Link roads NORMALLY do not have names." (Emphasis mine). In the unusual (abnormal?) cases where they do (and I trust Paul wouldn't have added them unless they do), there is no contradiction with our wiki, rather an unus

Re: [Talk-us] named links

There are some cases where naming link roads makes sense. For example, I tag the roads coming out of roundabouts as link roads (especially if it's something like a residential road intersecting, a note important road like a secondary road, and I tag the slip roads for that leg of the roundabout as

Re: [Talk-us] named links

This summarizes the approach I take towards this in regards to named or reffed links. At least until we start consistently expecting tags on entities to apply to those entities instead of a completely different entity. Adding ref to ways instead of the relation that describes the route is redunda