[Talk-us] question: relations & divided highways

[Ian Dees]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>wrote:

> i've recently finished up a relation for I-90 eastbound from I-481
> (Syracuse NY) to the NY/MA border.
>
> i'm wondering which of the following methods is preferred for the
> westbound leg:
>
> 1) same relation, set role to west
>
> 2) different relation for west bound.
>
> i can go either way right now with no real difference in the amount of
> work. i'm just wondering
> what is considered preferable. i do see that there are a couple of other
> relations for segments of
> I-90 kicking around, which seem to be one relation for both directions,
> perhaps this is a clue that
> i should go with option 1 above.


I've been using one relation for both directions, but wasn't there a concern
about the maximum number of items in a relation a while ago? I don't
remember what we decided after that discussion.
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