Hi Matt,

Welcome to OpenStreetMap.

Yes these are public roadways maintained by the City.

These lanes don't have names. What you are adding are descriptions. "Milky Way" and "St. Francis Lane" are names of some of Toronto's named lanes. "Lane E Sorauren N Fern" is a description that locates a lane.

Similarly, "Jarek Piórkowski" is my name. "Male Child of [my parent's name] Piórkowski" is a description.

OpenStreetMap is a geographic database, so the position of a lane is always known and doesn't need to be described in a name tag.

You will also notice that names like "Milky Way" or "Skey Lane" are posted on official City name signs as you're running past them, unlike the descriptions.

End users have managed these laneways without "names" for decades and I think they will be fine. If identification is needed, City does have a process for naming a laneway.

Your use case of running every single lane in the city is interesting, good luck! It is, however, no reason to introduce incorrect data into a database. In this case, it is also illustrative: you named two different lanes "Lane N Queen W Lansdowne" (the east-west https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23225609 and the north-south https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23225611) - does running east-west also as running the north-south lane?

At the very least, if you believe the lane's name to be "Lane East Sorauren North Fern" as you wrote above, please use that rather than the abbreviated form "Lane E Sorauren N Fern". And be more careful - you named https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/462296067 "Lane W Sorauren N Grenadier" even though it extends south of Grenadier Road.

Cheers,
Jarek
