I think Martin is complaining about long-distance coach services. Splitting them into within-urban and extra-urban segments would seem fairly sensible to me.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/12/4 Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com> > >> Martin's problem would be solved if the extra-long relation is broken up >> into segments. Which you are just as free to do as splitting a way in two. >> Keep the relation tags on each segment, just like you'd do if you split a >> way. >> >> (This is rather different to Jo's proposal, which involves shifting tags >> onto a parent relation) >> > > A bus line goes from a starting point to a terminus. It would seem strange > to me to split such relation at arbitary places in the middle in order to > avoid conflicts when editing. So it's not comparable to splitting a street > because the properties or relation membership changes. It would still > render correctly, but you lose the semantics of what the relation stood for. > > The proposal for the route segments was made 1,5 years ago, but never went > to a vote. > > I agree that it should not simply apply to route relations. There are some > relations where it is already in use. If I'm not mistaken long foot/hiking > routes. > > Rather than 'winning' a vote we should try to get support from öpnv-karte, > transportmap and OSMtransport. Once those big players render it, the rest > will most likely follow. > > Jo > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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