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

[Paul Johnson]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >OK, well, in JOSM at least, using the Relation Toolbox is snappy simple
>
> You cannot be serious, Paul. There is a relation here in Thailand, a
> super-relation?, that I've been wanting to edit for months. 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.
>

Except we're talking about like objects in the route relations case, not
badly designed multipolygons of gargantuan size.  Your situation would have
been a mess anyway even without relations if all of those objects were
sharing a common way.
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