On 16/11/2020 16:17, Seth Deegan wrote:
The Cycle Routes Wiki Page
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cycle_routes#Tagging_cycle_route_networks>
states:
"It is preferred to tag the cycle routes using relations instead
of tagging the ways."
If I come across a route that has the Ways already tagged with the
name <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name>=* of the route,
can I delete the name
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name>=*s in the Ways and just
create a Route Relation with the name?
Be careful. This is where many contributors get confused. The name of
the *path* is often not the name of the *route*. A route relation can, &
often does, go along paths with different names. Multiple routes can go
along a path.
I assume this is not prefered because a number of applications use the
names in the Ways themselves and not the Route Relation, most notably
osm-carto.
It renders the names of the paths, not the routes.
However, some benefits of doing this might be:
* Takes up less space in the DB
* More tags that apply to the whole coute could be added to the
Relation like surface
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface>=* and source
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source>=* (like the
official map of the route).
Surface has no place in a route relation as it refers diectly to the
path, not the multiple relations passing along it. Similar for the
source tag.
DaveF
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