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

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 8/22/2011 5:53 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
> 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.

So how will we do this? I've proposed one partial solution: 
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-August/008204.html

(By the way, conflicts are a big problem for relations, in that if two 
people simultaneously split different ways on the same route, it causes 
a relation conflict but not a way conflict. Until this is fixed, 
relations will be strictly inferior with respect to damage control.)