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

[Paul Johnson]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
wrote:

> On 11/7/15 6:02 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> >
> > sent from a phone
> >
> >> Am 07.11.2015 um 22:31 schrieb Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net
> >:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> 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.
>

I thought the problem was a 2000 member limitation in the API, though the
geographic grouping really helps manageability anyway even if the network
doesn't change at the jurisdiction line (ie, I 44 is still I 44 when it
runs into Missouri, as opposed to OK 325 which turns into NM 456 when it
crosses the Dry Cimmaron River at the border).
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