Frederik Ramm wrote: >> In the UK, road numbers are unique (apart from about three cases >> where local councils have cocked up, e.g. the B4027) and no road can >> have more than one ref. The relation doesn't give any info over and >> above that in the standard 'ref' tags - it just increases complexity >> for both editing and processing. > > If you simply use the "ref" tag to specify the road number, how would > you then use the API to access all ways making up B4027?
By using OSMXAPI: http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way [ref=B4027] That the mainstream API doesn't do it is (if it's deemed useful) a deficiency in the API, not a reason to add duplicate data. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk