[OSM-talk] Ways on bus route relations

[Jo]

Thomas Wood schreef:
> On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 15:40 -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>   
>> I am trying to figure out the conventions used to map bus routes. I am
>> trying to find out how the ways making up the relation should be drawn
>> or used.
>>
>> Do the "ways making up the route" (as defined on Relations/Routes
>> proposal) must be actual highway-tagged ways, or they may be distinct
>> (maybe untagged) ways drawn over the highway ways?
>>     
>
> The actual highway-tagged ways.
>
>
>   
>> Do you have other suggestions on how to avoid splitting the highway ways
>> into small pieces on those cases?
>>     
>
> Just do it, it doesn't matter
>   
What is a bit problematic with how it is done now, is that when one 
splits a road that is already part of a relation. This other relation 
becomes broken, so one should be careful to fix it/them as well.

We'll just have to live with the limitations of our choices.

Jo