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

[Steve Brook]

Some answers to various recent questions:

The monarch's way is described in three books so if it was to be split I
would suggest using the same split as the books as listed on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch's_Way ie.
	Worcester to Stratford-upon-Avon via Boscobel
	Stratford-upon-Avon to Charmouth
	Charmouth to Shoreham

One good reason for creating route relations is so applications such as
http://hiking.lonvia.de/relation/20611 can exist.

It also serves as a place to put common tags such as these taken from the
monarch's way relation

website : http://www.themonarchsway.com 
distance : 990km 
name : Monarch's Way 
route : hiking 
description : approximate route of Charles II's escape 
wikipedia : Monarch's_Way 
note : not a "National Trial", but at ~1000km longer than most, the MW
foundation wants it to be a Natioanl Trial, I think network=nwn is
appropriate 
type : route 
symbol : ship above a royal oak tree 
network : nwn

For looking at the history of big relations I found you can use the OSM
History Browser to list the change sets and allow you to compare selected
changes.
 
http://osm.virtuelle-loipe.de/history/ 
 
Also the Route Relations 'h' link on the
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Long_Distance_
Paths  page will provide the relation number and take you straight there:
http://osm.virtuelle-loipe.de/history/?type=relation&ref=20611 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Harley [mailto:jon at spiffymap.net] 
Sent: 09 September 2011 18:15
To: talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] FW: Monarch's way distributed
mapping party Saturday October 8th

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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