On 09/10/2011 13:17, Ed Loach wrote:
* E-routes forming a network which overlays the national network
These aren't sign-posted in the UK, so what source would you use to
map them? For example the E32 as described in Wikipedia here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_route_E32
lists no source
Hi
Anyone know why has the M5 motorway got a route relation dedicated to it?
Route relations are meant to represent, err... routes taken by people
that transverse multiple different ways; such as bus cycle etc not
just a 'collection' of things.
This has lead to tag duplication which can
Looking at the wiki (route=road) it seems to suggest a relation can be
used here.
However, it stikes me that the relation should be more than just the
roads without a role. The wiki suggests the road itself would have a
forward/backward role, and that link roads should be in the relation
Mark S wrote:
Looking at the wiki (route=road) it seems to suggest a relation can
be used here.
Road route relations are useful in the US, and some other countries, where a
section of road can belong to two routes.
In the UK, each road can only belong to one route (i.e. an unambiguous ref=
Maybe the wiki should be updated ?
However, I think route relations are quite extensive across the UK. I
first came across them on the A1 but I'm fairly confident lots of other
roads have them on. I'm a fan of consistency so if we remove the M5 one
then we should remove the others as well.
On 08/10/2011 16:42, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
In the UK, each road can only belong to one route (i.e. an unambiguous
ref= tag). There is no need for road route relations; the M5 motorway
is more easily defined as all ways within the UK bounding box with
the tags highway=motorway* and ref=M5.
Colin Smale wrote:
* there are lots of stretches of roads with (ostensibly) two UK
numbers (segment is shared between two routes)
Nope - there aren't. That's a popular misconception.
Where (for example) the A11 disappears into the A14 east of Cambridge, for
example, the road really is only
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