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

[John F. Eldredge]

One thing to remember, as well, is that there are likely to be differences of opinion on whether disjoint segments are to be considered part of the same street or not.  For example, the street I live on was divided into two separated sections about 50 years ago, when an Interstate highway was built.  I consider both segments to be part of the same street, but others might well differ.  Also, there are several occurrences in Nashville, Tennessee (where I live) of different, unrelated streets that share names, due to the city expanding over time and including what had once been separate communities.  So, having any sort of automated process join these streets in a relation based upon shared names would result in confusion.

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Subject :Re: [Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street(was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)
From  :mailto:elena.valhalla at gmail.com
Date  :Fri Sep 03 10:37:36 America/Chicago 2010


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.

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