[Tagging] Proposal: Sunset ref=* on ways in favor of relations

[Marc Gemis]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:48 PM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>
wrote:

> There are lots of places where it would help to group things uniquely
> rather than by a simple text string. Names are the obvious next one. If we
> put the names on a separate shared object, you can then tell when they are
> actually the same street, or whatever, rather than just a coincidence.
> There are two entirely separate Love Lane in Cambridge, for example, and
> many High Street all over the place. How do you know they are the same,
> especially if they don't all interconnect, or conversely they do, but are
> actually different.
>

There are already relations for that, a street-relation [1] or
associatedStreet-relation [2]. There was a huge discussion all over OSM
earlier this year about the benefits/drawback of such a relation. Or was it
last year ? Similar arguments: too difficult to deal with, simple data
consumers would no longer see the address. On the other hand, the
consistency like you point out.

regards

m

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:street
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:associatedStreet
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