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

[Anthony]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:26 AM, David Paleino <dapal at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:19:49 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>>
>> See, for example:
>>
>>  http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/143031
>>
>> That's a street with different classifications, a oneway-segment, and a
>> dual-carriageway one.
>
> No, I know what you're grouping. It's the why that I'm unsure about.
> Where's the benefit in this relation?

You can link to it (like he just did).  And you can more easily
add/remove/change tags which apply to the street as a whole.