Hi,

in OpenStreetMap, we model long hiking and cycling routes as superroutes because maintaining huge route relations becomes a mess. These superroutes contain only nodes (signposts) and relations (regional sections of the superroute). This is established mapping practice. I would like to ask you to follow that and get familiar with relation editing before attempting to remodel large things. I strongly recommend to switch to JOSM before you continue editing large relations. You won't become happy and your fellow mappers won't become happy either because iD's has limited support for editing relations.

In regions, where the local network is organised or modelled as a node network and the signed long-distance routes use the edges of the node network as members of the superroutes. In Baden-Württemberg, the cycling network is currently remodelled as node network in OSM. In large parts of Baden, the work has already been finished.

Therefore, I decided to revert your changes.

Best regards

Michael