<div dir="ltr">Hi Andrew,<div><br></div><div>No I had not seen that and it's really helpful thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>This is quite challenging to explain in an email but I will try...</div><div><br></div><div><b>Scenario:</b> Given a way, how can I determine if that way is part of a state or national route with a name?</div><div><br></div><div><b>Scenario in Action:</b></div><div><ul><li>Given the way "Mulgrave Street Gin Gin QLD" <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31973923">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31973923</a></li><li>Is this part of any relation.... Yes there are 2</li><ul><li>First relation is the A1, is this a national/state Highway YES! because it has the route=road, network=NH <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/198279">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/198279</a></li><li>Second relation is "Bruce Highway", is this national/state, NO! because it does not have a network=NH or S tag.
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/198331">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/198331</a></li></ul></ul><div><b>What's missing from the above:</b></div><ul><li>The Bruce Highway relation <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/198331">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/198331</a></li><ul><li>Does not identify that it is related to the A1 - National Highway</li><li>Does not identify that south most section in North Brisbane the M1</li><li>Does not identity that this is a State Route - <b><u>but I am unsure if it should</u></b></li></ul><li>Similarly, the A1 relation
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/198279">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/198279</a></li><ul><li>Does not identify that it is related to the Bruce Highway (route)</li></ul><li>The way
"Mulgrave Street Gin Gin QLD" <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31973923">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31973923</a></li><ul><li>Can't be reliably determined to be part of a state/national route and found to be named "Bruce Highway". Yes, I can say its on the A1 (national highway) but I can't say that the Bruce Highway is a State/Road route</li></ul></ul><div><br></div></div><div><b>My 2c</b></div><div><br></div><div>I'm unsure if what I am looking for should exist in a hierarchy of parent/child relations, or if it is best left to trawling through tags and finding references by convention and hope that things are tagged correctly. I kinda think the first is correct, or else why would OSM even have relations?</div><div><br></div><div>Parent Child relation down to the way members....</div><div><ul><li>RELATION: name=National Highway; ref=A1; route=road; network=NH</li><ul><li>RELATION: name=Bruce Highway
ref=A1:M3; route=road; network=S <--- not sure if this is S or NH</li><ul><li>RELATION: name=Bruce Highway ref=A1; route=road; network=S</li><ul><li>WAY....</li><li>WAY....</li></ul><li>RELATION: name=Bruce Highway ref=M1; route=road; network=S</li><ul><li>WAY...</li><li>WAY...</li></ul></ul></ul></ul><div><br></div></div><div>The above would allow a way's membership and hierarchy to be traversed.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Thoughts?</b></div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know CHEEERS!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 at 14:50, Andrew Davidson <<a href="mailto:theswavu@gmail.com">theswavu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 11:48 AM Andrew Hughes <<a href="mailto:ahhughes@gmail.com" target="_blank">ahhughes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Some worldwide/geographic tagging guidelines exist, that are based on a combination with the "network" tag: see <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Road_routes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Road_routes</a><br>
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Have you read <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines/Roads#Routes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines/Roads#Routes</a><br>
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