[Talk-us] Feature proposal: proposed expanded address tagging scheme for US

[Richard Welty]

On 11/21/12 5:48 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 21.11.2012 22:51, Apollinaris Schöll wrote:
>> relations seem to be a elegant solution for people with technology
>> background. And all your arguments are good ones
>>
>> BUT they have quite some disadvantages. Too many non techies have
>> problems to get the concept right. As a result they break existing
>> relations or they are scared away from editing osm.
>
> It is very common for "IT types" to request dropping of addr:street & 
> co in favour of an "associatedStreet" relation or similar - it makes 
> perfect sense from the perspective of a database designer. But every 
> time we respond essentially with Apo's words above - nothing beats 
> addr:street in terms of sheer simplicity for everyone involved.
i concur. theoretically i like the notion of associatedStreet, but with 
current editors
(both the human editors and the tools they use), it's more than a little 
fragile, much
more likely to get broken than a route relation.

richard