[talk-au] Question about relations

[SomeoneElse]

Adrian Plaskitt wrote:
> My specific question is, when the route passes down only part of a 
> way, say just a few blocks of a longer street, how do you assign the 
> relation to just a few internodes. Is it necessary to split the ways 
> at the nodes and then just assign the relation to the segments 
> between, or is it necessary to create a new way over the top which is 
> just the walking route, or is there some method that is simpler that I 
> have failed to appreciate.

I'd split the way, like this:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/141369518

Here the end of "Mandalay Beach Road" has been split and the part of the 
road that belongs to the walking route has been added to the walking 
route relation ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/400098 in 
this case).

The result looks like this on a map designed to show long distance 
hiking routes:

http://hiking.lonvia.de/en/?zoom=17&lat=-35.00144&lon=116.53484

Cheers,
Andy