On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Obviously in places where a road can have multiple equivalent references > (such as the US) route relations perfect sense (as does figuring out which > routes are actually signed on which bits of road) but in places where > there's only one real ref per piece of tarmac (such as the UK) there's no > need to force mappers to start maintaining relations as well as just > recording the reference. I'm glad someone else said it first. I don't want to be forced to create a relation where one is not needed. Relations are tricky, the tools for handling and editing them are IMO not that good, and it will invite many mistakes by less experienced mappers. I was looking at a what I surmise to be a ferry route earlier today and it had a tag of route=fairway. Did the mapper not realize what he was doing or are the diagnostic tools for determining errors in relations not that robust? Hell, when I'm adding inners within a large multipolygon I don't even think there is a way to determine exactly which relations surround my area. In addition, editing a relation which shares nodes/ways with another relation is a pure nightmare. No thanks. Before you go ahead with something like this, please make sure the tools and the Wiki are up to the job. Dave -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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