[Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

[Jim McAndrew]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Alan Millar <amillar503 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Furthermore, don't store redundant data in the OSM database.  There's
> >> absolutely no excuse for having 200 ways which all say name=Cain Rd,
> >> name_base=Cain, name_type=Rd.  It's absolutely terrible design.
> >
> > Patches welcome.  Please contribute a fix.
>
> I've been fixing it.  The fact that "Cain Rd" has a base of "Cain" and
> a type "Rd" is already in the database over and over and over again.
> I've been taking out the redundant copies of that information (which
> should have been in a separate lookup table from the beginning
> anyway).
>
>  I was never a fan of splitting a way, duplicating its tags, for something
like a small bridge over a creek
It would be great if attributes could be assigned to a number of ways, at
least from a normalization standpoint.
>From a UI standpoint, I don't really know how it would be done, but it could
be possible.
Modifying all the existing OSM data would be a challenge though.
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