2011/5/3 Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com>:
> It's one thing to say that to speed up and simplify processing, there should 
> be
> duplicated data.  Quite another to say that every contributor, on every object
> that has an address, should manually add several redundant tags.
>
> Let's tag the information that is needed, but not restate the same thing in
> several different ways.  Then if some different presentation of that info is
> needed, this can be done in a separate post-processing step by a computer, not
> by people.


You seem to imply that relations are faster / less manual work
requiring when entering addresses manually with one of the OSM
editors, but from my own experience they require at least the same
(manual) work, if not more.

cheers,
Martin

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