On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Congratulations on constructing something that is likely to break as soon as > the first inexperienced mapper touches it ;-) it would have been perfectly > ok to just add nodes for the individual houses and tag them with the full > address data - no relations, no headache, and easy to understand for > everyone.
a name based approach would be as likely to break, and it wouldn't even give any warning like the relation approach does >> An even better alternative would probably be to add the collected >> street relation to the associatedStreet one, but I'm not sure there is >> support for relations in relations in the api / editors > JOSM does support relations within relations but there is still a bug that > causes problems if both the containing and the contained relation are > created in the same session. that will have to wait, then, I suppose > Still my advice is not to use relations wherever there is an easier way. Actually, I don't understand what's hard with the relations: sure it is painful to add them with no autocompletion in josm, but that's just a minor editor issue that will be hopefully fixed. Maybe it is because I started mapping with the 5 api already in use, so relations were just a fact and not something new that I had to learn and changed the way I was used to map. > One > set of address tags per address, nothing could be easier, no relations > required. easier? maybe, but a maintenance nightmare the street I did yesterday was just a small test, but the next one I'm going to try is a 200+ houses one: i'm not going to do it at once, so I can't just insert all of the data and be done with it, I would have to painfully copy it at least once per session, hoping I'm not adding some spelling error -- Elena of Valhalla homepage: http://www.trueelena.org email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
