[OSM-newbies] Difficulty finding a relation ...

[Randy]

Tom Reavey wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am doing some mapping in Northern Spain.  One of the features here is
>a section of a long distance European walking and cycling route.  This
>one is E-9 (or sometimes E9) which, when complete, will stretch from
>south west Portugal to Russia (via ten intervening countries).  See :-
>
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.3997619152069&lon=-4.65805292129517&zoom=15
>
>Obviously it will be a large collection of paths, tracks and minor roads
>so I assume that they should all be linked together as members of a
>relation.  It seems to me that (given the size of it) someone more
>experienced than I must have already created the relation and I just
>need to find how they have tagged it so that I can add my bits (and
>remove the name=E-9 tags).
>
>Unfortunately I do not know how to find the relation (I do not know what
>it would be called or where the route goes except for the parts I have
>surveyed).  Any suggestions will be very welcome.
>
>Thanks
>
>Tom

Well, as a newbie the way I would find out what relations the track 
belongs to would be to load a section of the track into JOSM and see what 
relations are displayed when I select the track.

The E-9 track that you referenced is part of three relations:

	- a network named International E-road network
	- a route named E 70
	- a route named Oviedo - Santander


As far as finding all the members of each of those relations, I think you 
would have to query the map database and I'm not that far along yet.
The last one is probably self explanatory, though,

-- 
Randy