On 05/11/2009 13:50, Tom Reavey wrote: > Hi, > > I am doing some mapping in Northern Spain. One of the features here is > a section of a long distance European walking and cycling route. This > one is E-9 (or sometimes E9) which, when complete, will stretch from > south west Portugal to Russia (via ten intervening countries). See :- > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.3997619152069&lon=-4.65805292129517&zoom=15 > > Obviously it will be a large collection of paths, tracks and minor roads > so I assume that they should all be linked together as members of a > relation. It seems to me that (given the size of it) someone more > experienced than I must have already created the relation and I just > need to find how they have tagged it so that I can add my bits (and > remove the name=E-9 tags). > > Unfortunately I do not know how to find the relation (I do not know what > it would be called or where the route goes except for the parts I have > surveyed). Any suggestions will be very welcome. > See these pages on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/European_long_distance_paths and (in German) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Germany/Wanderwege-Netz#Fernwanderwege_.28FWW.29
It looks like there are a few different route relations for route E9, mostly for parts in Germany. For a route of that distance, I think its best to split it into multiple sections, as there's a limit on the size of relations etc. Something like one relation per region or country, maybe with a "super-relation" to group them together. So I think you may be best creating a new relation for the section you are mapping anyway (and adding it to the lists on the wiki so others can find it). Also, from a quick look on the web and OSM, the most common form of the ref seems to be "E9", so better to use that one (not "E-9"). Craig _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
