[Talk-us] ref tags

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Tue Jun 18 02:57:04 UTC 2013


On 6/17/13 10:19 PM, Jason Remillard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If the way is part of relation that has a ref, and the way itself does
> not have a ref, then the relation ref should propagate to the way. If
> the way has a ref, then that is what should be used regardless if its
> in a relation or not.
>
> Would that break anybody?
>
it's an ok temporary expedient.

ref tags on ways are erratic in the US, and in the long term we should
move to full use of relations and removal of ref tags from ways. that will
take quite a while, but it should be the goal state.

richard




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