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

[Elena of Valhalla]

On 9/1/10, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would not recommend this. Although it is more "elegant" from an IT
> point of view it is utterly vulnerable to break. Relations break up
> all the time, due to insufficient editor capabilities and
> unexperienced users (at least for the moment). We shouldn't require
> the capability to edit relations from the mapper just to enter a
> street name IMHO. If you do use these relations, please do it in a
> redundant way and keep the relevant information at the ways as well.

IMHO tagging names on the single ways is even more vulnerable to
breakage and bad data

I know that relations aren't currently well supported (but they are
better supported than they were, say, one year ago), and I know that
right now it is better to duplicate the informations, but I hope that
in the future editors will have better support for relations, and
editing a relation won't be an "advanced user" feature as it is right
now.

-- 
Elena ``of Valhalla''

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