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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 14, 2020, 16:40 by jmapb@gmx.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div class="">On 5/14/2020 10:01 AM, Paul Johnson
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:48
AM Steve Doerr <<a href="mailto:doerr.stephen@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">doerr.stephen@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div><div>On 14/05/2020 09:31, Jo wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="auto"><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Wed, May 13,
2020, 17:44 Jmapb <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:jmapb@gmx.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">jmapb@gmx.com</a>>
wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div>Regarding the original question -- in what
circumstances are single-member
walking/hiking/biking route relations a good
mapping practice -- what would be your answer?<br></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Always<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Doesn't that violate<a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element</a> ?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. The route traverses the way, it's not the way. <br></div></div></div></blockquote><p>Okay. But surely this doesn't mean that every named footway or
path should be part of a route relation. <br></p><p>The bike trail that brad linked to, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6632400" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6632400</a> -- I've never been there but I don't offhand see any reason to
call it a route. (Brad has been there, I assume, because it looks
like he updated it 2 days ago.) There's no information in the
relation tags that isn't also on the way itself. Is there any
benefit to creating a route relation in cases like this?<br></p></blockquote><div>Better handling of future way splits, consistency.<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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