On 3 May 2011 15:03:07 +0200, M?rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I know. In your case (just one house) the relation indeed seems
to be far less adequate in respect to simple tags. Relations add a
complexity that is mostly not desirable IMHO for cases like
housenumbers. The easier it is to enter (and maintain) them, the more
we will get. I suggest to put the information to nodes/polygons for
this reason (and for stability), even if it seems to be a less elegant
(more redundant) approach from a computer science perspective.
i played with associatedStreet relations a little. in a world where
relations are a touch fragile due to underdeveloped support in
the editors, associatedStreet is one of the most fragile.
we have a thicket of address related things (addr:interpolation ways,
associatedStreet, etc.) which have been put together in a somewhat
scattershot way over time. the current system doesn't quite hang
together, some elements are easy to break by accident, and some
things that would be nice to be able to do aren't really possible (e.g.,
including a building outline with an address in an interpolation way.)
if associatedStreet were better supported, it could be a method for
hooking postal codes to houses in the US. in some cases, you'd need
different associatedStreet relations for the two sides of the street
as the sides are on routes served by different post offices.
richard
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