[Talk-GB] Southwark update

[Richard Mann]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk> wrote:
> That's what I always thought and this page reinforces that.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations_are_not_categories
>
> But (and I don't speak German) what about the relations listed on
> this page with type=set?
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stolpersteine
>
> Relations get widely misused, but I don’t think we should add to the
> misuse.

Using relations as categories is just litter really - making the data
more complicated than it needs to be: if the relation isn't recording
some form of geospatial relationship, then it's just a lazy way of
grabbing a set of data. You can equally well grab the data by
specifying tags and a bbox.

Putting some extra tags on nodes doesn't cause database bloat. Putting
in lots of extra nodes does, but I think we have to find other ways of
dealing with that (osmosis for dummies would be a start).

Richard