On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 3:39 PM Peter Elderson <pelder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Richard Fairhurst:: > >> If you need somewhere for a mapper-facing route description (and I can >> see that you need that for “part United Kingdom 5”), then I guess the >> obvious place to put that is the note= tag. But let’s keep it out of the >> name tag; and let’s have a concerted effort to remove them from existing >> name tags. > > > I was under the impression the note=* tag is for mapper's notes about the > object. > I would think the best tag for a descriptive text would be the > description=* tag. > > Question about the ref=* tag: should a ref be something visible along the > route? > Generally, and that's one of the reasons relations were introduced as a primitive in API 0.5 13 years ago. Because multiplexed routes are a thing, not only between the same network but within multiple networks (such as a way that has a bus route, a county and a state bike route, is part of a US historic highway, and a current state highway), and ref=* on a way to describe a specific kind of route that traverses it makes very little sense. Can we please kill ref=* on way already? Please?
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