Super-relation
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A super-relation is a relation that contains other relations. Relations have initially been created to contain nodes, ways or areas and combinations thereof.
A super-relation is referred to as a 'parent' in Osmosis. The hierarchical structure of super- and sub-relations is also called a 'nested relation'.
Usage
Nested relations are virtually undocumented and rarely used but still there is an effort to process them.
- Routes, especially national and international cycling and hiking routes should be rendered by Waymarked Trails
- Routes, general? by the OSM Route Manager
- boundaries are used to build a hierarchy tree by Boundaries.pl
- bi-directional linking to Wikidata on Property P402
An example of a super-relation is the EuroVelo Route 15 - Rhin bicycle way 2171555 2171555. It contains four members for each of the countries it passes plus one connection between countries. Each member is itself a super-relation and has many bicycle route relations as members each for a small part of this very long bicycle route.
See also
- Pros and cons of nested route relations: Relation:route#Creating super-relations for routes
- Implementation: Super-Relation/Implementation
- Relation:superroute - Used to group multiple routes into a parent relation