[Tagging] Short-term parking zones

[Matej Lieskovský]

Ok, once again: I am sorry for even mentioning something that is actually
documented on the wiki. I've since then thought about the data model and I
can see how problematic it would be. Can we please move on to finding a
solution?

On 16 January 2018 at 09:25, Simone Saviolo <simone.saviolo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2018-01-15 11:07 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
>
>> > On 14. Jan 2018, at 12:32, Matej Lieskovský <lieskovsky.matej at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > If you create a single empty relation with the details of the parking
>> zone rules,
>> > you can then tag every road with the id of the relation.
>> > It is basically a way of flipping the relation system around,
>>
>> problem is with the following mappers, how would they find out there is
>> such a relation and that they should add it to the road they newly added?
>> If this kind of mapping started to become more established I imagine people
>> would spend a lot of time looking for those empty relations with the tags?
>>
>
> Not to mention that it would make for very poor data quality. It would
> establish a user-maintained (or rather, to-be-maintained) relationship
> between data; it would go over the software's head, and the database
> wouldn't know the least bit about it. From a practical point of view, when
> would an empty relation be downloaded? Never, if it has no members: which
> means that mappers would generally be anaware that such a thing even
> exists.
>
> In conclusion, you're suggesting a method that the machine couldn't help
> us with, and that mappers would have a very hard time (if not impossible)
> using correctly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simone
>
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