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

[Paul Johnson]

On 01/04/2011 06:13 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
> 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.

Well, shields or not, we should really work on getting the existing
rendering over to relations (overriding way-based refs for route
rendering purposes) already...seems like we've been talking about this
simple basic first step for over a year with no progress.

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