Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > fully agree we should keep this target in mind. > But first we have to resolve a long list of problems first. > there shouldn't be any time when the renderer or other data consumers will be > left with completely broken data because step2 was done before step1 > osm doesn't have any way of enforcing anything we need to be careful to kill > the dinosaur too early > > > 1) route relation tagging has to be defined, agreed and accepted widely. > currently it's a mess. > 2) rendering, garmin maps, any other major data consumer must be updated to > use relations. currently none does to my knowledge. no wonder since 1) isn't > done
1) appears to be done based on observations around the Oregon/Washington area (including relations that travel across other states). Not sure what's holding up 2), since it's clearly not 1) at this point. > 3) define a grace period after 1,2) is done and consider to delete them after > that. No need to do it because any consumer understanding relations the right > way will push down the relation ref and ignore the way ref. It's been at least a year. How much more time do you need? ;o) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
