On Jan 25, 2012, at 9:52 AM, WanMil wrote: > > A postal_code relation catches all nodes and ways and it has to be > tagged once. In constrast you have N elements all tagged individual. > The chances are much higher that there are one or more typo errors in > the elements than there is one in the relation. >
In theory this is the best > Anyhow postal_code relations need to be better maintained in the OSM > database. > relations are constantly broken in OSM and practically this doesn't work so well. having individual tags provides redundancy and can be used to verify consistency of the relation. > WanMil > > >> >> Thorsten >> > > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
