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

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:56 PM, David Marchal <penegal at live.fr> wrote:

> _______________________________
> >
> > On 06/11/2015 10:24, Paul Johnson 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.
>
> I also agrees with Paul. This proposal can be useful in some situations,
> but not all networks are such a mess. Here, in France, apart from E-roads,,
> there are virtually no road with several refs, and, AFAIK, that's the same
> for nearby countries. Besides, maintaining such a long relation can quickly
> become a nightmare, so I don't think it would really be useful in most
> situations, even if I understand it could be useful in some situations,
> like the USA networks you described.


Toby's solution of favoring the relations over the way value of ref=* would
cover this.
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