Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-02 Thread Andy Street
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 09:29 +0100, Andy Allan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > >> 2) Why the need for even one? After all, the "ref" tag on all the > >> component parts of the A1 should identify them without the need for a > >> relation. > > > > True. A relation

Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-02 Thread Andrew
SomeoneElse writes: > 2) Why the need for even one? After all, the "ref" tag on all the > component parts of the A1 should identify them without the need for a > relation. There is of course the complication that parts of the A1 are numbered A1(M). -- Andrew __

Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-02 Thread Gregory Williams
> -Original Message- > From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] > Sent: 2 June 2011 00:56 > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK > > When looking at a bit of the A1: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/w

Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-02 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> 2) Why the need for even one?  After all, the "ref" tag on all the >> component parts of the A1 should identify them without the need for a >> relation. > > True. A relation should only be needed if a stretch of road is shared by > several n

Re: [Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, SomeoneElse wrote: 1) Why the need for 4 A1 route relations? I'll leave that to others, but 2) Why the need for even one? After all, the "ref" tag on all the component parts of the A1 should identify them without the need for a relation. True. A relation should only be needed if a st

[Talk-GB] Road route relations in the UK

2011-06-01 Thread SomeoneElse
When looking at a bit of the A1: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/34158443 I happened to notice that it seems to belong to 6 route relations. There's a bus route, an E road (both of which make sense) and 4 A1s (which don't), one of which (103597) seems to have a lot more versions than th