On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/15/2010 05:08 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Ian Dees < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>> I don't think we should be storing any prefix as part of the network=* > or > >>> ref=* tags (thus my suggestion for > network=us_route/state_route/county_route > >>> or similar). For example the "I-x" denotation shouldn't show up > anywhere in > >>> our tags. If it's an interstate it should be tagged as such (I suggest > >>> network=interstate but I think there's a precedent on the wiki) and the > >>> renderer can add the "I-" if it wants to. > >> > >> This only works in relations because of overlaps. And relations are > >> too easy to break (split a way and upload the new ways only). > > > > They're not easy to break if you're using a proper editor and being > careful. > > When you ensure that all new mappers are being careful, tell us. New > mappers (and even some experienced ones) do break relations. Ways and relations are equally easy to "break": in both cases it's the client's job to apply tags to the new primitive and/or add the primitive to the relation. I haven't tried in Potlatch, but I know that JOSM does the correct thing when I've split ways in the past.
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