If a "/superroute/" has an official status (/like this one: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/20773/), I'm all-in for that.
If instead it is something "/invented/" by the mapper, than I'm all-against it. Can you please provide more information/examples/context? Sergio On 2019-03-13 14:18, Paul Allen wrote: > I've hesitated to ask this question for months now: what's the > consensus on superroutes? Going by all I can find on the wiki, > forums and past discussions, they're highly controversial. One wiki > page mentions them and says don't use them. They were either > never well documented on the wiki or some documentation has > been scrubbed. What I don't know is whether the intense dislike > some people expressed when they were first proposed has faded > or if they're still largely considered to be a very bad idea. > > One justification for them is that they simplify the mapping of > trans-national routes or very long routes: individual sections can > be mapped separately and then assembled into a coherent whole > as a superroute. > > Another justification is that very long ways (the figure I've seen is > 300 nodes) can be problematic and they should be split into > a superroute of individual routes. > > An argument against them is that some routers may not be able > to handle them. Which would obviously have been true when they > were first proposed and may still be true now. Which is a problem > with just about everything proposed here: we propose something > new, it's argued against because editors/renderers/routers don't > handle it, but the reason editors/renderers/routers don't handle it > is because nobody uses it. > > The reason I ask is that I can see an application for them that is > not explicitly mentioned in the documentation but might allow me > to deal with an otherwise intractable problem. If there is universal > disdain here I'll have to abandon that idea. But if there are enough > people who are happy with them then I have some questions... > > Please don't let this degenerate into a flame war. That can come when > (if) I explain what I want to do with a superroute - even the people who > support superroutes (if there are any) may be unhappy with that idea. > > -- > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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