What would be an acceptable name that OSM could help to establish?
What about 100% descriptive, like:
"Sendero entre Torrent de les Tres Serres y Camí de Can Balasc" ?

For what its worth: I've added this photo of this trail - https://www.trailforks.com/photo/25186829/ ... where you can clearly see that this is now a trail, but used to be a well established service double-track, during the past history when Collserola had more agriculture.

(both English and Spanish are foreign languages for me ... please forgive any errors)

Aqui el problema mas grande es que la direccion del parque usa sus milliones de euros de nuestros impuestos para montarse un chiringito de ex-politicos etcetera, pero NO HACE NADA de gestion o mantenimiento de senderos. Hay un monton de caminos antiguos que no estan en ningun mapa aún - como este. Es un lio poner caminos en OSM sin nombre ninguno, porque luego cada grupo de amigos senderistos o ciclistas lo llama diferente y muy mal. Ejemplo "la senda donde sergi perdi su movil" o "la trialera de la caido de Miguel" ... estoy hasta los ... de eso. Que mejor nombre proponeis, porfa ?

Hey aTarom, are you familiar with this area? Let me know if you want to come to a site visit together.

No, es tambien para senderistas.

Creo que no tiene nada de sentido de tener nombres diferentes para el mismo camino.

Thank you for the reminder and the patience! I'm learning, and I promise I'll get better!

Thank you so much ... I'll use that. I only got notification about this comment 2 days ago, here I see it as 2 months ago - that's weird, huh?

yep, I get it now. Thanks.

many trails and "pistas" do not appear to have any name at all, other than the reference like A11. All signposts use these references. That's why the map should show them. But if the reference appears in the map, if the name is empty, then I think it's good to move it there. Does it?

Hello Jose,

thank you. It's very kind of you to share those tips.

The relation seems like a good way to chain segments together - I'll start using that.

I understand the ref tag could be used when a path has a different name, and that name is *established* and also used in signposts, like street signs.
Sadly, in the Collserola park that doesn't seem to be the case: even when a path has a name that one could find in a map, the signposts in the park seem to only indicate the 3-character reference and any destination one could find, but no names. Well, and most paths don't even have any other name.

Here is an example of a signpost:
https://www.trailforks.com/photo/16920827/

The 3-character references are red signs, and easy to read.

Here is an example that has multiple references, but many are too tiny and too difficult to read:
https://www.alamy.com/indicadores-en-el-parque-de-collserola-barcelona-catalunya-espaa-image61496944.html

For navigation with any map-system that is based on OSM source data (like for example all Garmin systems), it is extremely useful being told which exact path to go ... and that should be the reference, or at least prefixed with that reference. Currently most system just show these paths as "unnamed road" or "unpaved road".

I trust that my edits of names will eventually tickle down into systems where they will extremely useful for navigation for people who hike or who go with mountain bikes.

best regards, Kai