[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:49:55 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Paul Johnson
> <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>> The wiki also says to use relations instead of ref= tags on the ways,
>> though uptake on that has been slow.
> 
> If it says anywhere to use relations *instead of* ref tags, show me so I
> can remove it.

I can't find it now, but I recall I had seen it before there.  Though 
using route relations to describe routes would free up the ref= tag for 
references belonging to the way itself (like county bridge reference 
numbers).