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

[Ian Dees]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-August/008199.html>
>
> I proposed a solution: http://lists.openstreetmap.**
> org/pipermail/tagging/2011-**August/008204.html
> <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-August/008204.html>


I really don't understand this logic. I have never run into a case where
JOSM has broken a relation in a way that wasn't obvious to me. Obviously I
don't "get around" as much as you, Nathan, but can you remind me of a
specific case where a relation breaks over the course of normal editing?
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