David, As I wrote - I am only producing reports for Poland and for my country there are very few complex situations and it really is straightforward to clearly see data duplication - having ref on ways has no value because everything is expressed in relations.
> > If you have a tool that says "US 136 includes ways whose ref tags say > 'I-465' and this is an error" then you need to realize that route > relations > and way ref tags serve different purposes and use cases, or at least that > sometimes it's impractical for them to match perfectly. Like I wrote - a user requested this validation, I implemented it and after running it on the data I immediately noticed the data duplication problem and shared my thoughts here on the list because this use case of trying to sync relations with way tags is a mistake in my opinion. If you're saying that you (as in - mappers in the US) are using it for different purposes, that's perfectly fine - I'm not proposing removing all "ref" tags from ways. I'm just rising an issue with blindly copying data over to different places - that is a road to nowhere. Paweł _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
