On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:36:34AM -0400, Peter Budny wrote: > Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> writes: > > Peter Budny wrote: > >> I'm building a robot as a school project that will use data from TIGER > >> imports and automatically create route relations for US state roads. > > > > My advice is not to do it; if it can be done automatically, route > > relations are not required > > If route relations are not required, then what are > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Road_Routes for?
Good question. What are they for? I never understood that either. :-) > They /are/ required, because roads may be discontiguous in various ways: > a road may change names (e.g. Main Street North becomes Main Street > South, but to a driver or pedestrian, both are just one continuous Main > Street), or even be physically discontiguous (some state and even US > Highways do this). So? Is any application actually using this? And what for? I am not beeing facetious, what are these routes actually useful for that the tags on the roads don't already do? Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
