Re: [Talk-us] Extremely long Amtrak route relations / coastline v. water

2020-11-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[cross-posted to talk-us@ and tagging@, please choose your follow-ups wisely] Brian M. Sperlongano wrote: > It seems that we are increasingly doing things to simplify the > model because certain tooling can't handle the real level of > complexity that exists in the real world.  I'm in favor of

Re: [Talk-us] Extremely long Amtrak route relations

2020-11-22 Thread Rory McCann
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020, at 18:06, Clay Smalley wrote: > Many long-distance Amtrak trains have route relations with 1000+ > members. If I split one way that happens to be a member of one of these > routes, I end up with a changeset with a gigantic bounding box, and > often get edit conflicts due to

Re: [Talk-us] Extremely long Amtrak route relations

2020-11-21 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
It seems that OSM has a an architectural problem with over-large relations? > +1 The Tongass National Forest [1] was recently mapped with great detail. It comprises most of the Alaska panhandle and all of its islands and inlets. The relation has 28,000 members and contains over 2 million nodes.

Re: [Talk-us] Extremely long Amtrak route relations

2020-11-21 Thread Ray Kiddy
It seems that OSM has a an architectural problem with over-large relations? Is modifying the relations in potentially arbitrary ways a good solution? Seeking something that may work now, can any "size-based" relation splits be done in a way that they can be automatically removed at some

[Talk-us] Extremely long Amtrak route relations

2020-11-21 Thread Clay Smalley
I posted this on the Slack but I figured I should put this on the mailing list to make sure it reaches everybody: Many long-distance Amtrak trains have route relations with 1000+ members. If I split one way that happens to be a member of one of these routes, I end up with a changeset with a