[Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 8/21/2011 2:22 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
> As someone pointed out, once you put them in a relation, the tags on the
> ways become duplicative. While this is generally bad database design,
> it's also true that many consumers don't deal with relations, and so we
> need the duplication and the problems that go with it.

It's also true that relations break very easily. Serge put it better 
than I could: 
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-August/008199.html

I proposed a solution: 
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-August/008204.html