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

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
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> > Am 11.11.2015 um 08:48 schrieb Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>:
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> > Where I have run into issues that make it difficult to tell if the
> relation is correct is when a route ends on a dual carriageway on one or
> both ends with at least one central segment being a two-way single
> carriageway.  In this case, the simplest fix seems to be to create a
> super-relation, and then add a child relation for each direction with a
> role of a cardinal direction, and have all the ways in the child directions
> have a role of forward or backward as appropriate, and tag the relation
> direction=west, for example (this is already how Interstates, which are,
> AFAICT, always fully divided).
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> +1, this is also done for bus routes for instance
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Pet peeve with this, though I expect this will be alleviated with time,
people tagging east/west as roles on *ways* instead of child relations.
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