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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 21, 2022, 21:21 by baloo@ursamundi.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:16 PM Shawn K. Quinn <<a href="mailto:skquinn@rushpost.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">skquinn@rushpost.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div>On 1/21/22 10:20, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:<br></div><div> > and of the fuel ways, many are not covering the whole area but only the<br></div><div> > "building" (60% of amenity=fuel ways have a building attribute).<br></div><div> > <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=fuel?filter=ways#combinations">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=fuel?filter=ways#combinations</a><br></div><div> > <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=fuel?filter=ways#combinations">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=fuel?filter=ways#combinations</a>><br></div><div> <br></div><div> In fact, this is how I usually map fuel stations: as an attribute of the<br></div><div> fuel canopy itself, with the nearby convenience store and other related<br></div><div> amenities mapped completely separately.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is why I'm wondering what was so bad about site relations and if maybe that should be given more consideration again. <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Relations are horrible and obnoxious to edit and maintain.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It gets even worse for newbies trying to map.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And in this specific case site relations are basically useless and <br></div><div dir="auto">fail to help with anything. Mapping fuel station as area would<br></div><div dir="auto">be entirely sufficient*. And even that is overkill, except extreme<br></div><div dir="auto">cases mapping everything as nodes will still work well.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">site relations in this specific case make editing horrific and<br></div><div dir="auto">fail to help with anything, especially as most people will never<br></div><div dir="auto">use them so processing would be unable to rely on them<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">*in some cases like fuel station in multilevel building with POIs<br></div><div dir="auto">on separate levels maybe level tags would be also needed<br></div> </body>
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