hmm... I'm not quite sure on what would be best. I do see your point in
the case of just splitting very long ways there, they would not be
'shared' at all. to the best of my knowledge type=* is intended to
exclusively define the relation. in all circumstances that we have
discussed, it still joins up to make a route, so perhaps its best not to
change the relation type. the chain idea is a nice one, but that would
make the smaller bits that join together... links. that may get
confusing quite fast; or chain-links, which might sound a bit too much
like we're talking about a physical chain. part might be a good
candidate, it's already there in the sense of building:part=*; so
following similar convention we could have route:part=yes, that seems
pretty intuitive; although we can probably go a step further and just do
a combination of type=route and route=part, I'll probably use that in
the example I make.
On 3/15/19 7:03 PM, Peter Elderson wrote:
The just-a-chain-of-ways relation doesn't have to be shared. It's
shareable, but the sharing really is of no consequence.
I think software needs a tag to control the selection for the purpose
it serves, OR allow any route relation without a type within all route
types it supports.
I would indeed go for an explicit label, just not "shared". Maybe
"general" or "chain" or "basic" or "segment", "fragment",
"elementary", just not something that says how it's going to be used.
Editors can keep their check that there MUST be a supported type tag,
and add that type=basic (or whatever word is chosen) can only have a
single consecutive ordered collection of ways. Other routes of any
type should be allowed to contain ways AND basic routes, apart from
more complex checking for particular cases such as PT variants.
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