[Talk-us] US highway tagging (was Re: highway shields: "get your kicks, where?")

[Richard Welty]

On 1/4/11 3:18 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On 01/03/2011 10:08 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>
>>> Also, is it now "correct" to not tag (network, ref) the individual ways that
>>> are part of a route relation? What about name? Is it "correct" to remove
>>> those existing tags from the ways (and ensure they are on the relation)? I'm
>>> not talking about a large-scale bot update, but "as long as I'm editing them
>>> for some other reason anyway".
>> No, it's not correct to remove refs from ways.
> I really would like to hear wider input on this, still, as it really
> doesn't make sense to waste the way's ref tag for refs that don't belong
> to the way, but the route that uses the way...
>
rendering engines haven't, by and large, shifted over to using ref tags
on the relations. while i think they should, i also don't think we ought to
cause the massive level of breakage that would ensue if they just got
removed.

richard