[OSM-talk] Bridge Names

[Matthias Julius]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

>> I would like to have nodes and ways only describe the geometry of
>> objects.  IMO nodes should have only 2 properties (lat & lon) and
>> maybe altitude.  Ways should only reference nodes.  All metadata
>> should be capured in relations.
>
> That surely is an extreme viewpoint but it is a possibility for a
> distant future ;-)

Well, I don't expect everybody to make the switch tomorrow. But I
would like people to consider that approach and start thinking in that
direction. And I would like to start tagging that way if the renderers
support it.

>
>> It would be very easy for a post box, a
>> phone booth and the town centre to share the same node without tagging
>> conficts.
>
> And it would be easy to accidentally move the post box when you only
> wanted to move the phone booth ;-)

If the post box is attached to the back of the phone booth this is
only natural. Move one and the other moves with it.

Ideally editors will make people aware of what they are moving.

>
> No, honestly, all this is thinkable; it is a widely-used model to have
> objects with several properties, one of which is their physical shape
> or location - that's what your suggestion would boil down to. But of
> course all that would require good support in all editors as well as a
> major shake-up of related software.

An editor that supports relations should be sufficient to enter the
data.

Matthias