Mashin,

It is fine to leave the trail names even if you've added a relation. I find it destructive and counter productive to remove them. Here are some precedential examples:

1. [Queen's Loop @ Bryce Canyon NP](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/650406545). The most popular hiking trail in the United States.
2. [Angels Landing Trail @ Zion NP](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/14326868). Second most popular in the US. Includes a similar named route.
3. [Appalachin Trail @ Vermont](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/149171259) The AT hopefully needs no introduction. Looking at the VT relations most are named.

> This is actually quite common way of mapping hiking routes and makes the data more tidy.

This is not common in my experience and sure it is a more normalized but tidy data is not always to the most usable. I value usable data over clean data.

For every map that uses relations, there is another that doesn't. Please refrain from removing names from trails until there is consensus on the topic. Join the conversation on the OSM community forum here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/trails-use-name-and-or-hiking-route/110106

Thank you,  
Elliott Plack  
Data Working Group  
OSMF