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

[Anthony]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>>
>> According to the wiki, associatedStreet only allows one occurrence of
>> the street role,
>
> Which is the main difference with the proposal 'street'. But this can be
> changed.

But changing it is probably a bad idea.  Do we really want a relation
with 500 ways representing the street and 50,000 nodes representing
the buildings?

After rereading
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories
I'm going to conclude that the proper place to put address information
is in the building data, not in the street data, and that
associatedStreet should therefore be deprecated.