On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 8/21/2011 2:22 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: > >> As someone pointed out, once you put them in a relation, the tags on the >> ways become duplicative. While this is generally bad database design, >> it's also true that many consumers don't deal with relations, and so we >> need the duplication and the problems that go with it. >> > > It's also true that relations break very easily. Serge put it better than I > could: http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/pipermail/tagging/2011-** > August/008199.html<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-August/008199.html> > > I proposed a solution: http://lists.openstreetmap.** > org/pipermail/tagging/2011-**August/008204.html > <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2011-August/008204.html> I really don't understand this logic. I have never run into a case where JOSM has broken a relation in a way that wasn't obvious to me. Obviously I don't "get around" as much as you, Nathan, but can you remind me of a specific case where a relation breaks over the course of normal editing?
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