Ok, once again: I am sorry for even mentioning something that is actually documented on the wiki. I've since then thought about the data model and I can see how problematic it would be. Can we please move on to finding a solution?
On 16 January 2018 at 09:25, Simone Saviolo <simone.savi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2018-01-15 11:07 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > >> > On 14. Jan 2018, at 12:32, Matej Lieskovský <lieskovsky.ma...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > If you create a single empty relation with the details of the parking >> zone rules, >> > you can then tag every road with the id of the relation. >> > It is basically a way of flipping the relation system around, >> >> problem is with the following mappers, how would they find out there is >> such a relation and that they should add it to the road they newly added? >> If this kind of mapping started to become more established I imagine people >> would spend a lot of time looking for those empty relations with the tags? >> > > Not to mention that it would make for very poor data quality. It would > establish a user-maintained (or rather, to-be-maintained) relationship > between data; it would go over the software's head, and the database > wouldn't know the least bit about it. From a practical point of view, when > would an empty relation be downloaded? Never, if it has no members: which > means that mappers would generally be anaware that such a thing even > exists. > > In conclusion, you're suggesting a method that the machine couldn't help > us with, and that mappers would have a very hard time (if not impossible) > using correctly. > > Regards, > > Simone > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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