On 03/05/2019 13:05, Hufkratzer wrote:
If some editors damage the order in the relations this is a bug that
should be fixed anyway.
As ever I'm sure that pull requests would be welcome.
Seriously, hoever wrote that section of that wiki page
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Relation:route&action=history
must have done so out of their _desire_ that relations are kept ordered
in OSM, not out of any observation that they actually _are_ ordered.
In OSM you need to deal with the data as it is, not as you'd like it to
be - the nature of the project, where anyone can contribute, and they
may not be even aware of concepts that you care deeply about makes it
fundamentally the worst place to be an architecture astronaut (as per
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/
etc.).
That's not to say that we can't try and make contributions better, but
the way to do that is to modify the tools that people use to contribute
to OSM not to write wiki pages that no-one reads before they start editing.
Best Regards,
Andy
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