Road names with appended bridleway/footpaths codes

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I’ve noticed of late near me (Surrey in the UK) that a few mappers have started to “name” roads by their bridleway/footpath “code” either on the end of a “real” road name e.g. “River Lane (BY 145)” Way: ‪River Lane (BY 145)‬ (‪79693898‬) | OpenStreetMap or
“FP 32” Way: ‪FP 32‬ (‪298112028‬) | OpenStreetMap

Now whilst that might be thought as of “helpful” in certain cases, I thought the convention of “Name” is to be what it actually is (say by a street name sign on the ground) and not something “contrived”. Equally if there is no actual name then you just leave this blank.

Also isn’t “prow_ref” meant to where you add these FP 32 & BY 145 etc etc even if some map renderers do not show them.

I am of course loathed to “correct” such things if acceptable but equally we need to adhere to some standards as otherwise everything would be a right mess!

Thoughts welcome.

Thanks
Tim Grose

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What you say is absolutely correct. There are other fields (such as prow_ref, designation) etc. for holding those other bits of information, and there are maps that show those.

I wouldn’t be too hard on this particular mapper though - they are very new (17 edits or so?) and they may need a bit of help understanding what their options are for other tags and other maps.

Perhaps add a “hello and welcome” comment to one of their changesets and invite them to discuss it here? I’m sure that people would be able to help.

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