Lester Caine schrieb: > Until there is some UNIQUE way of tagging high level relationships > consistently, then there seems little point trying to fix fine detail at the > lower level. It brings back up the simple problem of producing a unique list > of objects in the data. How DO we currently identify all roads in the UK, so > that we don't end up with some of the simply silly links that the likes of > Autoroute returns when asking for a location.
I'm thinking along those lines as well for a while now. I don't believe it suffices to map all boundaries to determine which roads belong to which country/city/suburb. Leave alone the fact that many boundaries are pretty hard to find or even map. When I've mapped a village with, say, 20 roads it takes me less than five clicks to group those in a relation and adding that relation to the relation of the municipality, town, etc. Even with the lowlevel relations support our editors currently have. I believe this is far more practical than to require mappers to map all relevant boundaries. I've recently created a sandbox going the whole way from "Planet Earth" to "Some Road" all in nested relations. You can browse it here: http://osm.schunterscouts.de/relation-browser.php (the URL accepts other relations as well, comments welcome) regards, Sven _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk