On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> sure, editor support isn't 100% yet, but why re-create a poor-man's >> relations with name-based references, when we already have "proper" >> relations? > Because editor support is almost non-existent, and exceptionally confusing :-)
then we should fix the editor(s), not add poor data > The advantage of using addr:street is that it does just work. The only > problem being that JOSM isn't clever enough at the moment to > [...] Of course once > you've gone to all that trouble you might as well have made the > backend use a relation instead. that's exactly the point: the addr:street solution would need quite some ad hoc work in the editors to become really feasible for ease of adding, maintenance and robustness; the relation solution would need some work in the editors that will benefit also when working with other relations -- Elena of Valhalla homepage: http://www.trueelena.org email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
