Hello!

Thanks for your answer and quick response in fixing things. Eventhough I didn't quite understand what you are doing and based on what kind of source data. Yes, indeed. These removed names are official names of public roads & ways issued by the municipality and which can be seen on eg. National Land Survey (Maanmittauslaitos in Finnish) background map in most osm editors and are also mostly signed on the ground. I hope that this open data set is on your list of sources? These official road names can also be obtained from the Digitransit dataset. These official names should override any other names on their equivalent openstreetmap segments. In fact I don't think hiking route names should at all be present on the individual way-object's name tags that make up the route relation. The relations are the right place for these route names in my opinion.

I've now just noticed that all the UKK-reitti segments in the Kuhmo area have been removed from this https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2505663 UKK-reitti route relation and I understand you have something to do with this. As I've understood the trails in Kuhmo are no longer officially part of the UKK-reitti, but I wouldn't yet have removed the relation there because there's still a lot of route markers on the ground suggesting that UKK-reitti still goes through Kuhmo. I would instead have used the same kind of historic reference as I did with the former Petranpolku ...
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12848574
I believe it's just a matter of time before someone starts adding UKK-reitti names or routes in Kuhmo as that's what you still can find on the ground.

Greetings Markku, who is often visiting Kuhmo