<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Tobias Knerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osm@tobias-knerr.de">osm@tobias-knerr.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Architect=*<<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/architect" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/architect</a>>tag<br>
<br>
"How do you handle the situation when there are several architects with<br>
the same name?"<br>
<br>
"Relations are not Categories" uses the argument that you can query for<br>
all objects that carry a tag. This isn't enough, however, if the<br>
combined information from tags and coordinates doesn't qualify as an<br>
unique identifier. The situation for architects, imo, resembles the<br>
route relations (also in that there can be more than one architect),<br>
thus there is a case for relations.</blockquote><div><br>Good question (and thanks for bringing this up again).<br><br>Here's the answer I just posted on the talk page:<br><br>I'm not sure there's any easy solution to this. Whilst using relations might resolve these ambiguities,
it'd make tagging a lot harder. Especially as often all you know is the
architect's name, and researching whether one architect is the same as
another architect with the same name would be quite a burden. <br><br>This
isn't a very satisfactory answer, I know, but the same problem exists,
for example if you want to do a query that finds all the cafes in the
Starbucks chain - all you have to go on is the name, and so you have no
way of knowing whether a cafe called "Starbucks" is part of the global
chain, or just happens to have the same name. Thankfully, I suspect
that in the real world, these types of ambiguities are fairly rare
(especially as both architects and shop chains are pretty protective
over their names as trademarks).<br> <br>Frankie<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Frankie Roberto<br>Experience Designer, Rattle<br>0114 2706977<br><a href="http://www.rattlecentral.com">http://www.rattlecentral.com</a><br>
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