Mike, Following further investigation, I accept that ways should not generally be named with the route they are on.
It's a shame the standard rendering of OSM does not display the name of the route, and there is no generally available 'hiking' OSM map.

Mike, I have looked at this and given it some thought. I initially added names to paths as some were already there and I found it useful to be able to trace the route on OSM. I notice that you have removed a lot of names from long distance trails and in some cases people have re-added them as presumably they think that useful.
I see no problem in the name of the route being visible on OSM, so I will leave it there.
Frazer