How do I add a way to an existing, but not adjacent, relation?

[SomeoneElseOSM]

See this help question:

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/27100/id-how-do-add-a-way-to-an-existing-but-not-adjacent-relation

There were no replies there, so I presume that the answer is "you can't, yet".

I was looking for information about iD because a new mapper has added new bits of a walking route in iD by naming them "blah trail" instead of adding to the existing "blah trail" relation. Whilst it may be easier to add to relations currently in Potlatch (or JOSM) I was wondering whether I could suggest something that didn't involve learning a different editor.

[jfirebaugh]

Correct -- the search is currently limited to relations with a member within the current viewport, which is pretty limiting for some scenarios.

[vadmium]

I think in the past I have worked around this by either zooming out, or dragging the viewport around so that part of the existing relation comes into view

[d3netxer]

Vadmium, if you zoom out too far then you might not be able to edit anymore. This was the case in one of my situations, where I could not get the two features in the same view.

[HolgerJeromin]

We have a nice text input field in the relation section.
It would be nice and easy if i could paste the full osm-url or only the number of the target relation here.

[bhousel]

moved to #3487