[OSM-dev] One value per key? Why not one pair per object?
Stefan de Konink
stefan at konink.de
Tue Feb 3 20:52:34 GMT 2009
Matthias Julius wrote:
>>> Key uniqueness robs us of some cool things but we get simplicity in
>>> return which is a price worth paying in this particular case, I think.
>> Using the misused thing called relations we are able to do most of the
>> things we want. But if there was a vote I would go for the unique k/v
>> thing because of the *non* semantics and *non* duplicates for an amenity
>> that is 'both'.
>
> I would say relations are not misused, they are misnamed. They should
> have been named "object" and a relation would only be one kind of
> object. Then everything could be made into an object that references
> ways and/or nodes.
s/ways/other objects/g
And it actually makes sense ;)
Stefan
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