[OSM-talk] route=road - What's that all about then?

[Pieren]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:
> But if you ask me, the ref tags on ways
> should be deleted, and route relations can be used as information for
> highway refs. This makes sense because you can have more than one route on
> one way.

And if you ask me, I would say the opposite. Excepted perhaps for ways
with multiple refs, these relations are just used as categories :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories

"We do not, however, create relations that simply collect a loose
group of somewhat related items. "

Pieren