I would definitely want routes to be composed of subroutes which are shared with other routes, hence the reasoning of keeping the stop sequences in the route relations.
Polyglot On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 15:41 Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 11:21, Tony Shield <tony.shield...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Am I right in thinking that a superroute is a sequence of ways and >> relations of ways? >> > > I'm not 100% certain. The documentation on the wiki isn't entirely > clear. I suspect some of it > may have been scrubbed by those who dislike the concept of superroutes for > any purpose > whatsoever, but it may just never have been written in the first place. > > As I understand it (possibly entirely inccorectly) it would be analogous > (using a slightly > different mechanism) to having the Wales Coast Path be a relation > comprising the > route for the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, the Ceredigion Coast Path, etc. A > relation of > relations. > > >> The relation of ways could be called a route-segment or similar. A I see >> it routes for most trains and buses are a sequence of ways and >> route-segments, and a route-segment could be used by many routes. >> > > I wasn't intending to share segments between routes. I'm not sure if I > could make that work for > some of my purposes (I haven't thought about it enough to be sure). It > probably won't be > universally applicable anyway, there are going to be routes that share a > particular segment but > not all of the stops on that segment. Also fan-out of routes is going to > result in a lot of very > tiny segments that are possibly more trouble than they're worth and it's > probably less work to > make them longer segments. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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