On 02/21/2011 11:26 AM, Kevin Peat wrote:
The point isn't whether or not your tool will create correct route relations but what the point of doing that would be. I can understand creating route relations for long distance cycling/hiking paths that people actually want to navigate and historic routes (Route 66 comes to mind as a non-American) but what is the point of creating a route relation for every highway?
Getting highway shields to render, for one.
No-one gets up in the morning and decides to navigate "State Highway 483" from one end to the other and even if they did a decent routing engine could create the route on the fly, so adding it to OSM is a waste of time and would just add pointless complexity to the data-set.
No one? Really? Pretty sure that some people do in fact do this sort of thing…
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