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

Ed Loach ed at loach.me.uk
Thu Aug 19 07:38:16 BST 2010


Anthony:

> Ugh, another point:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Relations_are_not_
> Categories
> 
> Putting all the elements which have addresses referencing a
> street
> into a relation seems to me to violate that principle.

No. There is a relation between the houses and the street. You don't
need addr:street on the houses if you have it on the relation. You
could argue that putting all the ways that make up a street into a
single street relation is also just using a relation as a category
if you think that of associatedStreet, in which case the answer to
the subject of this thread is "none of them".

Ed




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