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

[Anthony]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> 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.

Oh yeah, also you can have ways which are part of more than one street.