Well I didn't invent the way the names are currently formed and don't really have a strong opinion on the matter. Clearly it is a bit of misuse of the name tab, but it does make the relations easy to find in JOSM.
AFAIK the ref tag has been the only tag that traditionally has been rendered so right now there is no danger of confusion, but we might want to revisit the issue if somebody wants to it differently. A possible compromise would be to leave name as it is, and use name:de, name:fr and name:it for actual rendering of the route name, for which we wouldn't use the plain name tag anyway .
The question is naturally where to get the route names in all languages from without referring to the veloland.ch documentation and if SwissMobil claim any IP rights on them (we naturally already have that potential problem).
Simon
Am 18.06.2011 02:05, schrieb Matthias Julius:
Simon Poolesimon@poole.ch writes:
I've been doing some clean up in the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/EN:Switzerland/CycleNetwork) on Swiss bicycle routes (and some on the routes themselves).
I don't like how the name tag is used here. IMHO it does not make sense to repeat the ref here. It should be what is written on the signs along the route. That might mean the name tag needs to change languages along the way.
The way it is specified now one might get "ncn 8" or "Aare Route" printed on the map depending on the locale. I don't think this is optimal. The ref tag is usually rendered anyway. So there is no point in rendering it also as name. Also, I believe the terms "ncn" and "rcn" are actually not used in Switzerland. Therefore, it might be confusing to have them shown on a map.
Just my 2 Rp.
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