I believe the RRDB and most scanners are 16+ character displays which would allow for more obvious and useful names.
Having to be aware of/know the "encoding" scheme and/or look things up all the time is kind of self-defeating....
I agree. The problem I've run into, when programming using RR's 'description' field, vs the alpha-tags, many of them are still too long, and get truncated into something that is not fully understandable.
ie; 911-Dispatch-Macomb County Sheriff
If I take a lot of time to do some custom editing to my liking, they get wiped out and revert back to RR's database tags and/or description.