On 10/19/2010 02:06 PM, Anthony wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Alex Mauer<ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote:
On 10/18/2010 04:54 PM, Anthony wrote:
First of all, the ref tags aren't valid. The numbers are references
of *routes*, not of *ways*.
[snip]
You could equally say “the name tags aren’t valid; the names are references
of *streets*, not of *ways*”.
I could, and I have, actually.
And I agree that street relations are a better option in the long run,
if a little silly for the majority of cases where a street consists of a
single way (and also a usability nightmare in editors). But I also
don’t think that removing the names from every way in the hopes that
someone will notice the problem and fix the renderer would be the right
way to go. Same for ref tags.
until we have something better we have to
live with it.
In terms of routes, we do have something better. Route relations.
We don’t have something better. We have the *start* of something better.
Fix the renderers first.
Don't tag for the renderer.
That’s not tagging for the renderer. “Tagging for the renderer” would
be if I wanted my fenceline to show up as a blue line at a low zoom
level, so I might it highway=motorway. That’s wrong. Tagging something
accurately, but also applying something which is not your pet schema, is
not wrong, and is not “tagging for the renderer”.
No matter how much you may wish it were otherwise, part of the current
standard system is to apply ref=* to the ways which make up the route.
Once the route relation is better, I’m sure people will start using that
instead, and stop using the current system.
—Alex Mauer “hawke”.
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