Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela@iki.fi> writes:
It may be useful for road nerds to have the official 5-digit or 6-digit refs for ramps or cycleways in the database, but I do not think that they can be useful for a Garmin map user. A road nerd user can always tweak the mkgmap style. :-)
I agree that's true when those minor refs are not used in the community. That may be near universal, but my point was that whether they are useful is a fact about a region, not something that can be 100% safely broadly assumed. A broad assumption that is 99.99% right is certainly progress, and I really don't mean to object - just to point out the non-universality. (I would put the percentage your assumption is right at at least 99.9%+.)
My patch only affects the case when a minor road carries both a name and a ref. In that case, we would only display the name, not the ref.
That eases any concern, too.