[OSM-talk] Bot amended relations today

Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 12 14:41:22 BST 2010


Railways also can have separate "service" and "infrastructure"
relations. As indeed can roads (in places where roads can have
multiple refs)

Richard

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
>  On 05/10/2010 10:44, Werner Hoch wrote:
>>
>> The change DaveF doesn't like is the change of the tags
>>   type=route route=canal
>> into:
>>   type=waterway waterway=canal
>>
>> I thought this change is correct, as the waterway relations are usually
>> used to describe the waterway,
>
> This is not a waterway relation; it is a route relation. In my example the
> canal/river doesn't  have a waterway relation; it's tags are added directly
> to the way. eg
>
> waterway=canal
> name=*
>
> In general, ways can have multiple relations atrtached to them. So it could
> have a waterway relation & a route relation.
> They are not the same thing & I think that's what's confusing you.
>
>> There's also an ongoing proposal on the waterway relations to clean up
>> all the waterway mess [3].
>> [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Waterway
>
> This page appears to confirm the confusion. It seems people are using
> route=* to describe waterways.
> I believe this is incorrect.
>
> Cheers
> Dave F.
>
>
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