On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:36:36 -0500, 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.
I'm not so keen on using ref= for two different things; even if a route is quite small, I think having a route relation is better for describing route data. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
