I do it a lot. Take it from me and all other route maintainers - You can't maintain long routes with ID.
Most of the damage is done by other things then deletion. E.g. shifting a way, connecting ways, extending a way, shortening a way, closing a way, cutting a way. Vr gr Peter Elderson Op do 15 aug. 2019 om 17:39 schreef Paul Allen <[email protected]>: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 16:20, Peter Elderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Still most problems arise because ID edits damage routes. >> > > iD used to damage routes in the past. After an update a couple of months > ago it seems > to now maintain the sorting of routes, even if you insert or delete > elements. > > >> The mappers aren't even aware of the problems, and even if they were, I >> can't see how they could repair broken and unordered routes of several >> hundreds up to several thousands of members with ID. >> > > The way it used to be, I don't think they could repair unordered routes > with only two members, > using iD. That changed. There's still no automatic sort (that I've > found) but you can manually > re-order route members. And in some ways it makes tracing routes easier > than jOSM when > you have routes where ways are traversed more than once in the same > direction. > > For those wondering, with long routes with segments of different lengths, > the "zoom to" feature > of jOSM and (new) iD is useful. But with ways that appear more than once, > if you zoomed to > a second (or third, or fourth) occurrence of a way in a route then jOSM > reset your place in the > list of ways to th first occurrence in the list, not the occurrence you > were looking at. Not helpful > when you're checking the connectivity of the whole route, especially if > you didn't notice it > happened. iD doesn't silently change where you are in the list when you > zoom to the > 100th way in the list just because that way is also in the list at the > 37th position. > > I think ID does a fine job, all in all, but preserve, repair and maintain >> route relations cannot be done with ID. >> > > I haven't played with it enough to be sure, but it seems no longer to > damage routes if you > add or remove members, and you can re-order the members. I find the new > functionality > makes it easier to inspect routes than with jOSM. But maybe I haven't > used a complex enough route > as a test case, and in some cases it still damages routes. But it's > definitely not as bad as it was. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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