On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:48 PM, David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> There are lots of places where it would help to group things uniquely > rather than by a simple text string. Names are the obvious next one. If we > put the names on a separate shared object, you can then tell when they are > actually the same street, or whatever, rather than just a coincidence. > There are two entirely separate Love Lane in Cambridge, for example, and > many High Street all over the place. How do you know they are the same, > especially if they don't all interconnect, or conversely they do, but are > actually different. > There are already relations for that, a street-relation [1] or associatedStreet-relation [2]. There was a huge discussion all over OSM earlier this year about the benefits/drawback of such a relation. Or was it last year ? Similar arguments: too difficult to deal with, simple data consumers would no longer see the address. On the other hand, the consistency like you point out. regards m [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:street [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:associatedStreet
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