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

David Paleino dapal at debian.org
Wed Sep 1 10:50:03 BST 2010


On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:26:26 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:19 AM, David Paleino
> <dapal at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:09:22 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> >> Why is a route relation needed to group the segments of a street?
> >
> > 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).
> 
> But why does this "logical unit" need to be grouped in a relation? I
> don't see any benefit to it.

The benefit is intrinsic in data organization.

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