On 02/04/2011 01:44 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 2/3/2011 11:20 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> If it's a bicycle boulevard, it should have it's own LCN relation (even >> if it does have one member), as it would also qualify as a route. And >> the way will probably be split up many times over it's existence as turn >> restrictions get added, ways get split to represent medians, other >> routes sharing ways get added, etc. Relations are a tad more resilient >> in the long run. > > Not really - when a way is split, the old tags are automatically applied > to both new ways, but a relation is applied only if the editor knows > about the relation. It's very easy to download a large route relation in > JOSM and all its elements and split a way at a point where it overlaps > another route without realizing that other route exists.
However, when the way is split, that would split the route if it's tagged on the way. A relation would allow someone to download the whole route in question.
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