On 3/8/10 10:36 PM, Zeke Farwell wrote:
Part of Paul's original email:* Many bridges and tunnels have signed references that would actually be physical attributes of a way, but with the ref= tag on ways describing the overlying route instead of the way itself, makes it impossible to properly describe these attributes if ref= on a way is describing the route above the way, not the way itself.I think your right of ways that do not span more than one way fall into the same category as bridges and tunnels mentioned above. If there is a reference number specific to a single way then it makes perfect sense to tag it with ref=. However, when there is a highway spanning hundreds or perhaps thousands of ways (or even just ten) it does not make sense to tag every single member way with the reference number of the route when it could be put in a route relation.
additionally, when ways are shared among multiple routes, ref tags on the ways are problematic. richard
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