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

[Richard Welty]

On 11/7/15 6:02 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> Am 07.11.2015 um 22:31 schrieb Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>:
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>> To do it properly and
>> lessen the chance of multiple relations being accidentally created for the
>> same route (as continues to happen with NCN routes in the UK and elsewhere),
>> it will need either a new API search method or a dependency on Overpass.
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> Are multiple relations for (pieces of) the same route really a big problem? We could have multiple relations until they meet and then merge them.
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for the very long Interstate and US highways, in the US we usually
create a super relation and then have per-state relations. otherwise
you get into relations that you can barely if at all load into an editor.

richard

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