[OSM-newbies] [Talk-us] Time to retire ref= on ways?

[Dave F.]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org 
<mailto:baloo at ursamundi.org>> wrote:
>
>     It's time to retire ref=* on highway=* ways to describe attributes
>     of the overlying route instead of the physical attributes of the way
>     itself.  Using the ref= tag on ways to describe routes simply
>     creates more problems than it solves for many reasons.
>
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Paul

I thought we were already using relations to avoid all your points so 
maybe I'm misunderstanding you.
Could you please give some examples to clarify.

Cheers
Dave F.