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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve noticed there are 9377 cases of type=route tagged on ways instead of relations:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/type=route">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/type=route</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been unable to find any documentation of this tagging approach on the wiki.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Route_types_.28route.29">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Route_types_.28route.29</a> seems to indicate that certain route=* values can be tagged on ways in addition to relations, specifically ferry, mtb, and nordic_walking.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But even in that case, type=route on a way seems to be wrong?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>An overpass query excluding these 3 route types shows that the majority of these 9377 ways don’t fall into these specific route categories: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/yTU<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So my question is, is this type of tagging actually supported by data consumers, or are these 9000 tagging errors?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thorsten<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>