False positive: missing tag - highway without a reference

[skyper]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. have a secondary highway as member of a road route relation.
2. run validator

What is the expected result?

No warning as the ref=* is set in the relation

What happens instead?

False positive.
Info warning: missing tag - highway without a reference

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if possible.

Would prefer the other way around, that I get a warning about a way with ref=* and being member of a route relation.

URL:https://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Repository:UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
Last:Changed Date: 2019-07-23 21:47:40 +0200 (Tue, 23 Jul 2019)
Build-Date:2019-07-24 01:30:51
Revision:15262
Relative:URL: ^/trunk

Validator rules:
+ https://josm.openstreetmap.de/josmfile?page=Rules/GermanySpecific&zip=1

[skyper]

Unlike multipolygons relations, road relations with incomplete members need to be used for this test !

[GerdP]

I am not sure but I think the common way to tag the ref is to put it on the highway way and - maybe - also on the relation.

[skyper]

Replying to GerdP:

I am not sure but I think the common way to tag the ref is to put it on the highway way and - maybe - also on the relation.

At least in my area we treat every route relation the same. e.g. the ref is a tag of the route and not the highway. Adding ref, for example, for bicycle route on the highway is tagging for the renderer. Remember that we already privilege road relations as it is the only route relation rendered on the main map.

So why handle road relations differently ?

[Don-vip]

@Klumbumbus it's a mapcss test, if you want to take a look:

way.major_road[!ref][!destination:ref][noref!=yes][junction!=roundabout] {
  throwOther: tr("highway without a reference");
  group: tr("missing tag");
  assertMatch: "way highway=primary";
  assertNoMatch: "way highway=primary ref=123";
  assertNoMatch: "way highway=primary destination:ref=123";
  assertNoMatch: "way highway=primary noref=yes";
}

[Klumbumbus]

In 15285/josm:

fix #17970 - don't warn about missing ref=* on highway=* if it is part of a type=route route=road relation which has a ref=*