Railways also can have separate "service" and "infrastructure" relations. As indeed can roads (in places where roads can have multiple refs)
Richard On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Dave F. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/10/2010 10:44, Werner Hoch wrote: >> >> The change DaveF doesn't like is the change of the tags >> type=route route=canal >> into: >> type=waterway waterway=canal >> >> I thought this change is correct, as the waterway relations are usually >> used to describe the waterway, > > This is not a waterway relation; it is a route relation. In my example the > canal/river doesn't have a waterway relation; it's tags are added directly > to the way. eg > > waterway=canal > name=* > > In general, ways can have multiple relations atrtached to them. So it could > have a waterway relation & a route relation. > They are not the same thing & I think that's what's confusing you. > >> There's also an ongoing proposal on the waterway relations to clean up >> all the waterway mess [3]. >> [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Waterway > > This page appears to confirm the confusion. It seems people are using > route=* to describe waterways. > I believe this is incorrect. > > Cheers > Dave F. > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
