[Tagging] Proposal: Sunset ref=* on ways in favor of relations

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Fri Nov 6 13:44:29 UTC 2015


On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Obviously in places where a road can have multiple equivalent references
> (such as the US) route relations perfect sense (as does figuring out which
> routes are actually signed on which bits of road) but in places where
> there's only one real ref per piece of tarmac (such as the UK) there's no
> need to force mappers to start maintaining relations as well as just
> recording the reference.
>

Well, I believe impetus for route relations was Sustrans networks.  These
tags went from the ways to relations years ago already, so call me
skeptical that there's no multiplexes in the UK (especially since without
any real effort inside 30 seconds, just randomly scrolling by hand to the
UK, I see that the A24 and RCN CS7 are multiplexed).  I honestly don't see
why we should be treating tags related to route=road any different than
we're already treating route=bicycle.
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