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On 3/8/10 10:36 PM, Zeke Farwell wrote:
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Paul's original email:</span></font></div>
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Many bridges and tunnels have signed references that would <span
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be physical attributes of a way, but with the ref= tag on ways
describing the overlying route instead of the way itself, makes it
impossible to properly describe these attributes if ref= on a way is
describing the route above the way, not the way itself.</span></blockquote>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span
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your right of ways that do not span more than one way fall into the
same category as bridges and tunnels mentioned above. If there is a
reference number specific to a single way then it makes perfect sense
to tag it with ref=. However, when there is a highway spanning
hundreds or perhaps thousands of ways (or even just ten) it does not
make sense to tag every single member way with the reference number of
the route when it could be put in a route relation. </span></font></div>
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additionally, when ways are shared among multiple routes, ref tags<br>
on the ways are problematic.<br>
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richard<br>
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