I regularly edit a number of cycle routes (primarily the danish national cycleroutes) and do my best to sort/order the members (it's helpfull when looking for gaps and other peculiarities in JOSM), but have found that it's often near impossible to make them perfectly sorted.
Consider for example https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/20828. Where's the end points here? Also note that inexperienced mappers doing minor edits somewhere along a route cannot be expected to reorder it. On torsdag den 3. maj 2018 07.38.04 CEST Tod Fitch wrote: > While I’ve mapped a number of trails most of them are not part of a > designated larger route so I am not 100% sure, but I think hiking routes > are much like highway routes: The ways in the relation should be ordered. > > Not sure why you’d need a node in there, especially without an explicit > role. If the route ways are ordered it is obvious where the end points are. > > Cheers! > > > On May 3, 2018, at 5:06 AM, David Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, there. > > > > I recently worked a bit on hiking routes, and noticed that some routes > > have unordered members. That's particularly noticeable on > > waymarkedtrails.org <http://waymarkedtrails.org/>, as it makes the > > elevation graph rubbish and useless. I read the relation:route wiki page, > > but there is only advice regarding stops order, and not way members > > order. Shouldn't there be a note on this page regarding the importance of > > sorting the ways to have a more useful relation than only spaghettis? > > > > By the way, I saw some hiking relations having a node without explicit > > role, seemingly as a start point; is it a generally accepted, used > > feature, or only an idiosyncrasy? > > > > Awaiting your answers, > > > > Regards. > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
