[Tagging] Reasons for associatedStreet?

[Luca Brivio]

In data mercoledì 01 settembre 2010 12:08:42, David Paleino ha scritto:
> Ok, after some more discussion on #osm-it at oftc , we kind-of-agreed that
> route=road isn't suitable for all cases, and there are places in the world
> where it's not suitable at all (because not all streets with the same name
> are proper "routes").
> 
> So we settled that Relation:street, as proposed in [0], would be more
> suitable, both for grouping segments together (yes Simone and Nathan, just
> for the sake of it, because I think it's convenient to keep them logically
> together with a relation), _AND_ for grouping a way with its housenumbers.
> 
> This would obviously deprecate Relation:associatedStreet in favour of
> Relation:street.

That's fine, +1.

On a different note, IMHO associating streets' ways together in relations shall 
no doubt both improve wayfinding performance, contribute to data consistency 
(thus facilitating way listing) and provide a helpful hand to renderers.

-- 
Luca