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

Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 18 18:39:35 BST 2010


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> 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?
>

wow, 500 ways and 50,000 addresses just for one street ! Show me the map !


> 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.
>

And if you read more on the wiki, you will discover that the Karlsruhe
schema is allowing both. Here we speak only about the contributors who
selected the solution with a relation. Nobody force you to use it but let
others clean-up the relations proposals.

Pieren
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