[OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

Konrad Skeri konrad at skeri.com
Wed Aug 25 09:54:38 BST 2010


2010/8/25 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
> 2010/8/24 Konrad Skeri <konrad at skeri.com>:
>> Is there any current usage of super-relations for roads?
>
>
>> This could be resolved by making a relation of E 45 Sorsele
>> municipality, E 45 Storuman municipality, E 45 Vilhelmina
>> municipality, etc. and then join all of them in the super-relation E
>> 45 Sweden, and finally join E 45 Sweden, E 45 Denmark, E 45 Germany,
>> etc. in the (super-)super-relation E 45.
>
>
> Is the purpose of this E45-relation to be easily able to download the
> whole route? Because to put it in OSM it is sufficient to tag all
> pieces with ref=E 45
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>

Good question. Why are we putting roads into relations? I'm just doing
it because everyone else is. I have a vauge memory of arguments that a
way beloning to several roads are better represented by a relation for
each road instead of having ref=E 12; E 4; 92

/Konrad



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