Trevor Hook wrote: > I've started mapping the Ouse Valley Way which is a long distance path > running through East Anglia but I've run into a problem. > > The route is using footpath/bridges etc which have already been named, > when I go to name the route by selecting all the paths used by the route > I've mapped so far, JOSM appears to be overwritting the name name of the > individual components of the route (i.e. a bridge can only have 1 name > tag but could have several routes running over it). > > How am I suppose to handle this situations? Select everything that makes > up the route and name it Ouse Valley Way anyway? Dont name the nodes and ways that make up a route. As you've already said they often have their own name.
Use a relation to group the objects and then add the route metadata to it. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Routes -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
