[OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

[Andrew McCarthy]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:33:31PM +0100, Steve Hill wrote:
> But a motorway which is not a continuous road (i.e. has gaps in it) is 
> _not_ a single road - I see no reason why it should be treated as one. 
> Maybe you could cite some examples of why you need to treat it as a single 
> road, even though it has gaps in it?

Can we not have both?

(1) A relation which contains all the ways that define a road according
to its official designation, whether a single road, or several disjoint
pieces.

	and 

(2) A relation for that road's notional "route", that contains the
relation above *plus* the (usually obvious) connecting bits that give
you a single, long distance route from A to B.

Different people will find the two options useful. Or am I missing
something here?

Andrew
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