[Talk-GB] associatedStreet relations in the UK

[Jez Nicholson]

For some unknown reason, I absolutely loathe associatedStreet. I use iD a
lot, and membership of a relation can lock elements.

- Jez


On Thu, 12 May 2022, 18:10 Tony Shield, <tonyosm9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm curious as to why a new user in their first changeset would make
> changes to such an arcane piece of tagging. What prompted them?
>
> TonyS999
> On 12/05/2022 18:02, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
>
> I've never seen the point of them & have removed a few when full
> addressing has been added.
> This is another example of relations being used just to collect 'things'
> together.
>
> The positives for using them are tenuous.
> "adding information... only once" and "reducing the potential for spelling
> mistakes." is moot as multiple buildings can be select to edit as one, or
> the 'replicate' key can be used.
>
> DaveF
>
> On 12/05/2022 17:08, Ken Kilfedder wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses_in_the_United_Kingdom is
> silent on the use of associatedStreet relations (
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:associatedStreet ).   I
> haven't seen much use of them anywhere in the UK, but there are some here
> and there.
>
> Does anyone have strong views about whether existing uses of
> associatedStreet should be maintained?
>
> I'm asking because a new user has appeared in my neck of the woods and
> removed all buildings from eight different associatedStreet relations -
> with his/her first eight changesets!   I'm not sure I have the energy to
> follow-up more than I've done already.
>
> (First changeset: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/120857294 )
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