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<p>Surely the fact that it is difficult to get it 100% perfect should not stop us from moving at all? As with all "big" problems, a divide-and-conquer strategy often helps to make things achievable which at first glance seem insurmountable.</p>
<p>As this functionality really should be built into each and every editor, we need a mechanism to make sure that all editors implement the same rules. To me, that means documenting something in a way which distinguishes between right/good and wrong/bad, which is often thought to be against the laissez-faire nature of OSM because it limits the freedom and creativity of mappers. Getting that balancing act right is a difficult challenge.</p>
<p>//colin</p>
<p>On 2015-11-08 13:33, Andy Townsend wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On 07/11/2015 23:02, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:</span>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Are multiple relations for (pieces of) the same route really a big problem? We could have multiple relations until they meet and then merge them.</span><br /><br /></blockquote>
<br /> The problem isn't that we can't merge multiple relations later, it's that we can't stop them being created in the first place. Also "we can merge" might need a survey to resolve differing tag issues, as the the knowledge of "how to merge relations" and "what it's actually like on the ground" will likely be in different people.<br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Cheers,</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Andy (SomeoneElse)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /> _______________________________________________<br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Tagging mailing list</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a></span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a></span></div>
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