> Routes can happily be split -- the primary point of relations here is > to allow more than one route following the same way. It's not like > we're trying to build categories or similar -- we don't need to > because we can always match tags.
Not always - there can be more routes on one road for example one international route plus perhaps a bicycle route, marked trail or route of some bus line. There is for example international bicycle route from Prague to Vienna (about 420km), most of it is on local routes of even some forest trails, often switching roads and therefore having lot of relation members. Many parts of it will be shared with another bicycle routes so you can't just forget relation and "match tags". 1000 relation members will be enough for most uses but what about the few that are larger? Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
