[OSM-talk] implementation of relations in josm

[Frederik Ramm]

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> Hi,
> 
> > I started adding routes as relations in josm. Now I have 8 or 9 of them 
> > for the area I work on, but I don't know which is which since they are 
> > all called 'relation'. Couldn't the name or the ref be used as a tag?
> 
> The current code uses the "type" as primary display and puts
> "relation" if you have not specified a "type". I strongly suggest you
> specifiy a "type" tag with each relation.
> 
> Having said that, this wouldn't help you a lot because you would see
> lots of relations named "route" or whatever you used as "type" value.
> 
> We should fix that; the problem is that we'd really need code
> dependent on the type of relation - for some you may want to have the
> name or the ref, for others this would not make sense.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik

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