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

[Paul Johnson]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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> > Am 07.11.2015 um 13:49 schrieb Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>:
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> > . It has three or four relations, provincial, 2 wood multipolygons, and
> a river) sharing ways along an international boundary. Trying to separate
> one of those wood multipolygons (so it can be split into smaller chunks)
> from the rest is something that will take hours for me to do. It's so
> tricky, even with the powerful Relation Toolbox, that I've simply ignored
> it because there's too much other work over here that has a higher priority.
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> having a river (waterway =river) and a forest share the same way is
> generally broken (as the forest is a area and the river is a centerline).
> This kind of mapping is initially faster at the expense of more
> difficulties later on for modifications
>

I'm going to have to agree here.  You can't blame relations for making
stupid editing decision before you got there.  You can, however, go back
and ask that person to back out of that edit or work to resolve the issue.
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