Road relations are a line of defence against people who see a road without a ref tag and put low value information in it. It is unfortunate that OSM Americana, which generally represents good practice displaying road numbers that other styles could do well to use as a starting point to adapt to their aesthetic, was willing to use way tags in Britain and lose that protection.
-- Andrew ________________________________ From: Philip Barnes <[email protected]> Sent: 21 April 2025 15:26 To: OSM Talk GB <[email protected]> Subject: [Talk-GB] Road Relations in the UK HI I have been adding my local bus route(s) to OSM and for many of the saves I have also been updating some quite long trunk road relations. I do see the irony of asking about the value of relations when I am adding other relations but. Whilst I understand the reason they are needed in the US where refs are routes, where in the UK a road can only have one ref so effectively they are just a collection of ways which share a ref, which has no more utility than a relation of all the pubs called the Red Lion. Does anything actually use these? One I have touched, the A41 has a huge gap in the middle. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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