[Talk-us] ref=* tags on links

[Evin Fairchild]

The only way you can get people to stop putting reg tags on ways and only
put them on relations is if the renderer actually rendered reg tags from
relations. Currently it doesn't do this, so it's impractical for people to
do what you're suggesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, don't tag for the
renderer, but I'd you don't have route numbers show up at all, them this
really reduces the usability of the map. It's such an important thing that
there's no way you can get people to stop putting the reg tags on ways
unless the renderer rendered the ref tags for the whole relation.

-Evin (compdude)

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 9:56 AM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> The ref=* tag on ways is already 100% redundant if the way is already a
> part of the appropriate route relations and should be phased out so ref can
> be used to actually describe the way's ref, where applicable.
>
> Also, can we kill this dinosaur entirely already?  Route relations have
> been a widely accepted thing for a decade now, if you're not using route
> relations for your primary source of route information (instead of
> expecting tags on some other non route object to tell you), then you're
> doing it wrong and you don't matter.
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 07:38 Mihai Iepure <mihai.iepure at telenav.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone!
>>
>>
>>
>> We’re looking for your opinion on the existence of ref tags on links –
>> should it be there? Is it redundant if the link is already in a route
>> relation that has the ref tag?
>>
>>
>>
>> We’ve created a Github ticket
>> <https://github.com/TelenavMapping/US_mapping_projects/issues/25> to let
>> us know what you think, so feel free to post your thoughts there.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>>
>> Mihai Iepure
>> Map Analyst
>>
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