On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > I'm trying to work out how using name=* on the sidewalks isn't the easiest, > most obvious answer.
Because there are walking paths with names, and that's not what you're talking about. What you want is essentially a reference to another object, which is why relations are useful- but they're complex to work with. Additionally, using any name reference means that you now need to keep the two objects in sync in non-obvious ways. Let's take an example from NYC. If I had a sidewalk for 6th Avenue, what would the associated street tag name need to be? 6th Avenue Sixth Avenue Avenue of the Americas These tricky edge cases aren't insurmountable, but they add a great deal of complexity to software needing to parse the data in a meaningful way, the end result of which is that more times than not, if the data model is too complex, the programmer simply doesn't bother. That's why I advocate using tags like sidwalk=yes/no/left/right/both directly on the road object. - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us