[OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

[Matthias Julius]

"Karl Newman" <siliconfiend at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>wrote:
>
>> "Karl Newman" <siliconfiend at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Sounds like you're looking for this:
>> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Segmented_Tag
>>
>> This can not cross way boundaries.  If someone splits that way in
>> between to and from there is a problem.
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>
> That's exactly the point--that tagging scheme is intended to get away from
> splitting ways. If this were to be adopted, the need to split ways would be
> greatly reduced. Splitting ways would probably need to be made non-trivial
> by the editors and it would take some careful support for copying the
> relevant tags to new relations and modifying the old ones.

Ways need to be split - we can not have the whole world in one single
way.  If some of the data has to be duplicated the usefulnes of the
tagging scheme is allready greatly reduced.

Matthias