[Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street (was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

[David Paleino]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:09:22 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:00 AM, David Paleino
> <dapal at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:42:12 +0200, Simone Saviolo wrote:
> >
> >> 2010/9/1 David Paleino <dapal at debian.org>:
> >> > In fact, we already have a relation for grouping a street together
> >> > (various segments + "links"). That's Relation:route, with route=road.
> >> > What about a "house" role to include housenumbers there?
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if you're suggesting we use the proposed relation Street
> >> (that already has a "house" role) or the approved relation Route.
> >
> > I'm proposing the use of the already well-established Route.
> 
> Why is a route relation needed to group the segments of a street?

Would you mind forking a new thread next time? :-)

However, I'm using that because I consider "Foo Avenue" as a logical unit, a
"route", even if the way is split (because of oneways, different
classifications, different tags, whatever).

David

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