On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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. > I see associatedStreet as a nicer solution for dealing with organizing objects relevant to the right of way itself, but feel it's kind of a reach to try to have it replace the Karlsruhe convention for addressing.
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