[Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] FW: Monarch's way distributed mapping party Saturday October 8th

[Jonathan Harley]

On 08/09/11 22:37, Dave F. wrote:
>
> Before any mapping gets done can we make sure the relation system to 
> be used can cope with a long distance route?
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/52310
>
> This relation is fairly long & upto v341 already. It gives a time out 
> error when attempting to view its history.
>
> Instead of having just one relation I think it would be a good idea to 
> split it into child/parent relations such as has been done to NCN 4:
...

This may be a stupid question, but what precisely is the purpose of 
grouping the parts of Monarch's Way, or similar, into relations at all? 
I know that in general, relations allow tags to be applied to the whole 
thing, but it escapes me what tags you might want to apply to the whole 
of a long distance footpath apart from its name? Am I missing something?

Jonathan.

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