[talk-au] Should a "trail" route relation be one-way?

[Ian Steer]

I am a volunteer with the Munda Biddi Trail Foundation, and do my best to
keep the Munda Biddi Trail route relation (5810814) up-to-date.  The trail
is 1,000km from Perth to Albany.

 

There is a child route relation (Munda Biddi Alternate, 8900679) that
contains "odds and sods" not on the main route (typically spur trails into
overnight huts).

 

There are a few sections of the main trail that have alternate routes - some
for north-bound/south-bound, and one for summer/winter routes.

 

I don't know enough about the potential consumers of route relation data to
answer the following question:

- should the sections of track with alternate routes (eg north/south,
summer/winter) be in the main route relation? - or should I randomly select
(say) north-bound and summer routes so as to keep the main route strictly a
simple, point-to-point route (and shift the south-bound and winter routes
into the Munda Biddi Alternate relation) ?

 

My suspicion is that they should stay in the main route relation.

 

Regards

 

Ian

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