[OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

[Dave Stubbs]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:
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> Steve Hill wrote:
>  | Putting all of the separate bits of the UK's M11 in a single relation
>  | sounds about as silly as putting all the roads in the UK called "Station
>  | Road" in a single relation - they are separate roads and there is no good
>  | reason to treat them in any other way.
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>  Seriously, you can't see a difference between the M11, and the
>  collection of roads called "High Street", all over the UK and even the
>  world? You don't think that the second is just a bit more "silly" than
>  the first?
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>  You don't think that searching for "M11" should produce one result for a
>  road that covers the whole country, and searching for high street should
>  produce hundreds of separate results?
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He was talking about disconnected bits, although it does depend to
some extent just how disconnected the bits are as to how silly it is.
I'm sure you can find some nice extreme examples to prove both
arguments.

I've no idea whether there are actually any disconnected parts of the
M11 - as far as I was aware it's just about 50 miles in the SE of
England - but anyway, that's completely irrelevant to the point.