Re: [OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

2010-08-25 Thread Konrad Skeri
2010/8/25 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2010/8/24 Konrad Skeri kon...@skeri.com: Is there any current usage of super-relations for roads? This could be resolved by making a relation of E 45 Sorsele municipality, E 45 Storuman municipality, E 45 Vilhelmina municipality, etc.

Re: [OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

2010-08-25 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/25 Konrad Skeri kon...@skeri.com: Good question. Why are we putting roads into relations? I'm just doing it because everyone else is. I have a vauge memory of arguments that a way beloning to several roads are better represented by a relation for each road instead of having ref=E 12; E

Re: [OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

2010-08-25 Thread Konrad Skeri
In Sweden the E-roads are also the national ref (with exceptions of Swedish/Norwegian E 6 that is the international E 47 and Swedish E 4 that is international E 55) so I guess we should use both. regards Konrad 2010/8/25 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2010/8/25 Konrad Skeri

Re: [OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

2010-08-25 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Konrad Skeri wrote: Good question. Why are we putting roads into relations? It adds useful redundancy, making it possible to find errors in a route (and, in the other direction, since it's easier to screw up a relation than ref tags, having ref tags helps with correction). It also adds

Re: [OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

2010-08-25 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/25 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: Good question. Why are we putting roads into relations? It adds useful redundancy, making it possible to find errors in a route (and, in the other direction, since it's easier to screw up a relation than ref tags, having ref tags helps with

Re: [OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

2010-08-25 Thread Aun Yngve Johnsen
I have had a similar thought for the longer Federal Highways in Brazil. Dividing them by state sounds sensible, as BR-101 reaches all the way from the border to Uruguay in the south to the city of Recife in Northeast. If my counting is right, that is 9 states. And there are several other

Re: [OSM-talk] Super-relations for roads

2010-08-24 Thread Mike N.
Is there any current usage of super-relations for roads? Super-relations have come into wider use in the US on national road networks. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_relations Minimizing conflicts across huge geographic areas was one of the tipping points in favor