[OSM-talk] collection/street relation: which one to use?

[Ulf Mehlig]

However, "associatedStreet" is maybe not the most obvious choice for
joining, say, the segments of a motorway; at least I thought,
"associatedStreet" would be used for associating single ways (street
segments) with waypoints (symbolising addresses along the street
segment) only. In addition (being, however, no native speaker of
English), using "associatedStreet" for a collection of ways sounds
strange to me.

... and then there is also the tag "relatedStreet" -- what's that? :-)

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 14:10 +0200, Pieren wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk> wrote:
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>         > and both relations area apparently ±equally used.
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> True, it's not two but three relations proposals for the same purpose:
> "collection", "street" and "associatedStreet" 
> 
> Although"collection" is not limited to streets, it's also proposing
> street addresses members...
> 
> 
> Since "associatedStreet" was historicaly the first proposal including
> house numbers and is the most popular according to Tagwatch, I would
> suggest to deprecate the "street" proposal and remove streets from the
> "collection" proposal.
> 
> Pieren
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