Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-02 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: 2) Why the need for even one?  After all, the ref tag on all the component parts of the A1 should identify them without the need for a relation. True. A relation should only be needed if a stretch of road is shared by

Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-02 Thread Gregory Williams
-Original Message- From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] Sent: 2 June 2011 00:56 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK When looking at a bit of the A1: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/34158443 I happened to notice

Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-02 Thread Andrew
SomeoneElse lists@... writes: 2) Why the need for even one? After all, the ref tag on all the component parts of the A1 should identify them without the need for a relation. There is of course the complication that parts of the A1 are numbered A1(M). -- Andrew

Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-02 Thread Andy Street
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 09:29 +0100, Andy Allan wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: 2) Why the need for even one? After all, the ref tag on all the component parts of the A1 should identify them without the need for a relation. True. A

[Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-01 Thread SomeoneElse
When looking at a bit of the A1: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/34158443 I happened to notice that it seems to belong to 6 route relations. There's a bus route, an E road (both of which make sense) and 4 A1s (which don't), one of which (103597) seems to have a lot more versions than

Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, SomeoneElse wrote: 1) Why the need for 4 A1 route relations? I'll leave that to others, but 2) Why the need for even one? After all, the ref tag on all the component parts of the A1 should identify them without the need for a relation. True. A relation should only be needed if a