[OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant
Richard Fairhurst
richard at systemeD.net
Mon Apr 7 00:43:30 BST 2008
Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> In the UK, road numbers are unique (apart from about three cases
>> where local councils have cocked up, e.g. the B4027) and no road can
>> have more than one ref. The relation doesn't give any info over and
>> above that in the standard 'ref' tags - it just increases complexity
>> for both editing and processing.
>
> If you simply use the "ref" tag to specify the road number, how would
> you then use the API to access all ways making up B4027?
By using OSMXAPI: http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way
[ref=B4027]
That the mainstream API doesn't do it is (if it's deemed useful) a
deficiency in the API, not a reason to add duplicate data.
cheers
Richard
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