[Talk-us] [OSM-newbies] Fwd: Re: Re: Time to retire ref= on ways?

[Richard Welty]

On 3/8/10 10:36 PM, Zeke Farwell wrote:
> Part of Paul's original email:
>
>     * Many bridges and tunnels have signed references that would
>     actually be physical attributes of a way, but with the ref= tag
>     on ways describing the overlying route instead of the way
>     itself, makes it impossible to properly describe these attributes
>     if ref= on a way is describing the route above the way, not the
>     way itself.
>
>
> I think your right of ways that do not span more than one way fall 
> into the same category as bridges and tunnels mentioned above.  If 
> there is a reference number specific to a single way then it makes 
> perfect sense to tag it with ref=.  However, when there is a highway 
> spanning hundreds or perhaps thousands of ways (or even just ten) it 
> does not make sense to tag every single member way with the reference 
> number of the route when it could be put in a route relation.
>
additionally, when ways are shared among multiple routes, ref tags
on the ways are problematic.

richard

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