It's time to retire ref=* on highway=* ways to describe attributes
of the overlying route instead of the physical attributes of the way
itself. Using the ref= tag on ways to describe routes simply
creates more problems than it solves for many reasons.
* The ref=* tag on a way is describing
Yes! I agree 100%.
Zeke
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
It's time to retire ref=* on highway=* ways to describe attributes
of the overlying route instead of the physical attributes of the way
itself. Using the ref= tag on ways to describe routes
Mar 2010 11:28:00
To: Paul Johnsonba...@ursamundi.org
Cc: newb...@openstreetmap.org; talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Time to retire ref= on ways?
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fully agree we should keep this target in mind.
But first we have to resolve a long list of problems first.
there shouldn't be any time when the renderer or other data consumers will be
left with completely broken data because step2 was done before step1
osm doesn't have any way of enforcing
On 3/8/10 12:52 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
fully agree we should keep this target in mind.
But first we have to resolve a long list of problems first.
there shouldn't be any time when the renderer or other data consumers will be
left with completely broken data because step2 was done
On 8 Mar 2010, at 10:10 , Richard Welty wrote:
On 3/8/10 12:52 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
fully agree we should keep this target in mind.
But first we have to resolve a long list of problems first.
there shouldn't be any time when the renderer or other data consumers will
be left with
Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
On 8 Mar 2010, at 10:10 , Richard Welty wrote:
On 3/8/10 12:52 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
fully agree we should keep this target in mind.
But first we have to resolve a long list of problems first.
there shouldn't be any time when the renderer or other data
Chris Hunter wrote:
Definitely a good idea! My only concern would be to make sure the way is
correctly included in the route relationship(s) before deleting the ref=*
tags.
A valid concern, and one in which I believe human intervention is
required.
Maybe a bot could do this?
I'd prefer
Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
fully agree we should keep this target in mind.
But first we have to resolve a long list of problems first.
there shouldn't be any time when the renderer or other data consumers will be
left with completely broken data because step2 was done before step1
osm
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