[OSM-talk] implementation of relations in josm

[Ben Laenen]

On Thursday 03 January 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Also the other problem with
> > splitting and merging of roads needs attention. Rather urgently I
> > would say.
>
> I agree. It is however again one of the problems where different
> relations will need different actions - when a way in a route
> relation is split, both new ways need to be members, but when a way
> in a turn restriction relation is split, only the one at the junction
> should be a member.
>
> Somehow I always thought that we should have a rather complex
> "presets" style configuration file for JOSM that tells it what to do
> with various kinds of relations but maybe a simple hack would be
> better than nothing for now; in the case of splitting ways perhaps
> just always ask the user what he wants.

And don't forget to flip forward/backward memberships in route-relations 
when changing the way direction :-p

Ben