A few years ago I spent a lot of time breaking up these kinds of relations in The Netherlands, after fixing the ones in Belgium. I can assure you it's indeed a lot of work. When numbered walking route relations came in vogue, I made sure they were mapped properly right from the start.
I tackled a few in Germany near the border too, but since then my interests have shifted somewhat, not to say entirely to PT. I had hoped the Germans would follow the example... The use of a network relation to group the route relations is entirely appropriate. they are networks of routes. It's not a category. Polyglot 2015-08-16 12:21 GMT+02:00 Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net>: > I've encountered two fairly widespread issues with bike route tagging and > would appreciate help sorting them out. > > In parts of Germany and elsewhere, networks of local/regional cycle routes > are grouped into regions. The Nordrhein-Westfalen network is a good example. > > The master relation > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/33216#map=10/50.5815/6.7992&layers=C > is tagged with type=network, which is perhaps appropriate (insert usual > 'Relations are not categories' citation here). > > However, its child relations are tagged with type=route: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/222572 > which is not appropriate. As the osm.org geometry shows, this isn't a > route, it's a collection or network of routes. > > A second issue is the misuse of the ref= tag in these relations. The ref= > tag is intended for a number that appears on a sign or other on-the-ground > evidence. It is not "some arbitrary bunch of letters I made up to get it to > render". However, it's being used as the latter in this (ref=NRW) and many > similar cases. > > The most "correct" way forward would seem to be: > > - break the child relations up into individual routes > - group these together within a parent type=network relation > - remove the ref tags > > The first step would, of course, be Hard Work. > > Thoughts and suggestions welcome. > > cheers > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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