On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote: > 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.
I certainly wouldn't recommend removing the names from the ways until you have the names in the relations. At the point where you do, sure, they should be removed. The idea that no one will ever create a renderer which uses the names in the relations is ludicrous. It would be trivial to write a preparser to take the names from the street relations and stick them on the ways, which could then be fed right back into a stupid renderer that knows nothing about relations. This wouldn't be a particularly good solution, but it'd get you back to where you were tagging the ways (with the improvement that the tags for a single route would be consistent), and it could be written in a couple hours, probably much less by anyone who knows anything about how the renderer works. > 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. What about the route relation needs to be improved? _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
