[Tagging] Route members: ordered or not

[Mateusz Konieczny]

3. May 2018 14:06 by Penegal at live.fr <mailto:Penegal at live.fr>:


> I recently worked a bit on hiking routes, and noticed that some routes have unordered members. 




Ordering them, if possible is helpful. Is there maybe some JOSM function that does it automatically?


 

> That's particularly noticeable on waymarkedtrails.org, as it makes the elevation graph rubbish and useless.




That is not really relevant in topic how something should be mapped (in this case 


it encourages a correct and useful edit so it is not a problem).


 


> I read the relation:route wiki page, but there is only advice regarding stops order, and not way members order. Shouldn't there be a note on this page regarding the importance of sorting the ways to have a more useful relation than only spaghettis?




Feel free to improve wiki.





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> By the way, I saw some hiking relations having a node without explicit role, seemingly as a start point; is it a generally accepted, used feature, or only an idiosyncrasy?
>




idiosyncrasy? 


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