Sorry to keep working this side topic but I want to add this information FYI. I just came across this interesting article that talks about the difficulty of editing relations in JOSM. Even though we're talking about routes in this thread I think it's still relevant to our recent discussions:
http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2015/10/irish-vice-counties-creation-of.html ; and especially the section headed "Technical Aspects (OSM)". In that section the author, sk53, says, "Creating a whole set of boundaries encompassing one country and part of another is not a light undertaking on OSM. It is fiddly work, and involves manipulating objects with many dependencies. In practice I find it somewhat reminiscent of software migration projects: mainly mundane but you need to keep your wits about you. Contrary to what some believe, none of the OSM editors can prevent damage to other objects in this process. Mapping boundaries on this scale inevitably involves relations, and relations are not semantically clean objects at the level of the OSM data model." I certainly agree with that assessment. Cheers, Dave On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > Am 08.11.2015 um 05:47 schrieb Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net>: > > > > otherwise > > you get into relations that you can barely if at all load into an editor. > > > +1, also the risk of a conflict on upload is higher for big relations > > > cheers > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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