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

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 8/22/2011 5:47 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
>
>> If there is no overlap, a single network / ref pair will work just
>> fine.  Why wouldn't it?  What breaks is multi-values in network / ref
>> tags.  Don't do that.  We have better ways to do this; relations.
>>
>
> Relations break. Hence ref tags are there as a backup to repair relations.


Ways break too, it's just that editors sometimes remember to fix them during
their edit session (e.g. by copying the tags when they dual-carriage a way).
If we get people to fix the relations too, then they won't break.
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