On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
> António Madeira via Tagging <[email protected]> writes: > > > What I meant is that even if that "ref=49" is wrongly associated to > > It does seem like someone is adding incorrect refs based on a > misunderstanding, and it would be good to have that resolved. People > with strong opinions doing wrong things and the db ending up that way is > an unfortunate part of OSM, but comes with the good parts of evolving > tagging. > It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to start formally deprecating ref=* on ways. Ref to describe routes on ways violates the "one object, one OSM entity guideline," and is one of the reasons relations were created as a primitive in OSM in the first place. If the ref=* on ways dinosaur was allowed to die the death it should have 15 years ago.
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