[Talk-us] Highway ref on way or relation?

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 6:32 AM Clay Smalley <claysmalley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Relations are the best way to model multiple overlapping routes, though
> many renderers ignore them in favor of displaying the ref tag from the way.
> So as long as different renderers are using refs from both the relation and
> the way, we have to maintain both.
>

We should have some serious discussion about killing the dinosaur and
letting ref=* refer to whatever that way is referred to as instead of using
it to describe whatever route it's a member of.  This exact situation is
one of the motivating factors for introducing relations as a primitive in
the first place, and it's been, what, 15 years since that happened?
Anything that's not rendering relations now is unmaintained and not going
to do so.
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