[Tagging] "Relations are not categories" excepted for "type=network" ?

[John Packer]

Kugelmann,
It's true we should delete these relations, but not without adding the
appropriate tags to it's members (else we would be throwing data away).


2014-07-16 8:20 GMT-03:00 Michael Kugelmann <MichaelK_OSM at gmx.de>:

> Am 16.07.2014 05:23, schrieb Marc Gemis:
>
>  In Belgium and The Netherlands a network-relation is used to group
>> together all nodes and routes of a walking network.
>>
> relations are NO CATEGORIES in OSM, that's agreed since years!
>
> Please delete these relations.
>
> BTW: it's not possible to keep such a relation up to date  if it has a
> reasonable amount of objects => any new node or way of  the network has to
> be included. But e.g. I didn't know about that relation => I wouldn't
> include a new node or way => would be missing. So I don't see any chance to
> have all objects within a relation. => another argument against a relation
> used as category.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Michael.
>
>
>
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