[Tagging] Sorting waterway relations?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

27 Feb 2020, 09:55 by colin.smale at xs4all.nl:

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> If it was semantically important, we should be scanning for and flagging up waterways with out-of-order ways.> The fact that we are not, shows that the ordering of the ways is not essential for a correct geometrical interpretation....QED
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This proof assumes that OSM validators
are completed and detecting all possible
semantic issues.

This is not true, just look at 
JOSM/osmose/iD issue tracker, every
one has plenty of open issues suggesting
new validator checks.


>  it is possible that re-ordering the members of one relation, causes the members of another relation to become out-of-order.
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Why reordering members in one relation would
reorder members of other relation?
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