Mar 6, 2020, 15:22 by music.kash...@gmail.com: > > Thank you for sharing your thoughts 🙂 > > 06-Mar-2020 17:40:23 Andrew Harvey : > >> I think including the actual route is useful and makes life easier for >> downstream users (they don't need a routing engine to show the route), could >> this be optional so you can create a public transport route relation via >> waypoints only if you prefer as a starting point, but then still allow it to >> be completed via the way members. >> A bit like how most things can be initially mapped as a node but then are >> usually expanded out into an area. >> > > I'm afraid I'm against that idea, personally. I've mapped nearly 70 bus > routes in my city (and counting); I'm still their lone maintainer; I have > also dabbled with mapping railway routes. So many relations with so many ways > - especially highways, which are the first things newbies edit and thus are > the most likely to break a relation - are an enormous maintenance bomb > waiting to go off. (And sometimes it does go off, and the fallout goes on for > months.) > And it affects not only people mapping public transport routes. I would gladly put burden on data users (assuming that burden for data users is not significantly greater than burden removed from mappers).
I was really happy when some bus routes become invalid and I was able to delete them.
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