[OSM-talk] specific Relations

[Stephen Gower]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:25:46PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> >> The membership itself is restricted to the role tag 
> >   
> >   Were there technical reasons for this, or was it an arbitary design
> >   decision?
> 
> No technical reasons. Having a "role" at all was already something which 
>   took some time to explain to many people so I didn't even think about 
> the more general (and complex) schema that you suggest, although I do 
> readily admit that there is a certain beauty to it. (Heck, many weren't 
> even convinced we needed relations at all - explain to them that you 
> don't only want relations, but you want to be able to have a full tag 
> set for each individual membership...)

  Thanks - I've been on holiday, so my brain has had a rest - I think
  I may now be able to work the routes proposal out, adding a stop
  relation only in the case that restrictions only apply to some of
  the routes involved.
  
  s