Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-25 Thread Serge Wroclawski
It'll be interesting to see how the German community handles this as an excercise for other communities. I think that handling this in a local way is the right move. - Serge On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes I remove stuff by accident realize it later

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-25 Thread Jo
But wat is local in the global context of OSM? It seems that, as far as Belgium is concerned, I'm the only one with an interest to keep using them. I do think they add some value, especially in a bilingual context like in Brussels. But if I'm the only one in the whole (small) country, who am I to

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-25 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 25/01/2015 13:00, Andreas Goss a écrit : Fully borken or not. In my opinion a assiciatedstreet relation that does not include every element is broken. At that point all the advantages are gone. associatedStreet is not multypolygon ! A lack in the outer of a multipolygon is a gap and

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-25 Thread Johan C
2015-01-24 1:07 GMT+01:00 Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr: Le 22/01/2015 22:49, Johan C a écrit : Good to have this discussion. From a computer expert point-of-view relations are fantastic for data integrity and to keep database size low. From an OSM point-of-view, which includes

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-25 Thread Andreas Goss
Hi all - does anyone know what the geographic distribution of associatedStreet is like? taginfo doesn't render a map (it seems it doesn't do that for relations). I hear rumours it's mainly Germany but it'd be handy to know. Wambacher posted some maps in the Forum:

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-25 Thread Andreas Goss
Your editor will probably hace displayed a warning at step 1. At the end of the operation, you've got a house missing it street, not a fully broken relation. Most don't. Right now JOSM is the only one I use that does. Especially most mobile editors don't... some just flat out don't even show

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-25 Thread Jo
Sometimes I remove stuff by accident realize it later and instead of going back just replace it, because I did more stuff in that time and don't want to lose my work. If you care about preserving the history of that object, you could do the following in JOSM: Create new layer Download data

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-25 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 25/01/2015, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: My experience is that it is very hard to place every house in the right relation before you know the actual address. Especially with corner houses and in rural areas where the driveways to the farms do not always connect to the street with

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-25 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 25/01/2015, Andreas Goss andi...@t-online.de wrote: Fully borken or not. In my opinion a assiciatedstreet relation that does not include every element is broken. At that point all the advantages are gone. To me breaking the relation would mean that all the addresses it contains are now

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-24 Thread Marc Gemis
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:17 AM, moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com wrote: and more powerful (preparing a housenumber survey by armchair-mapping buildings and associatedStreet). My experience is that it is very hard to place every house in the right relation before you know the actual

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-24 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 24/01/2015, Andreas Goss andi...@t-online.de wrote: A novice user will hardly break an associatedStreet relation Remove house. Replace with new outline at the same place. Add tags again. Done. associatedStreet relation broken. Your editor will probably hace displayed a warning at step 1.

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-24 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 24/01/2015, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: On 24.01.2015 13:12, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: Recomended isn't mandatory. The name tag of associatedStreet is only of use to mappers (to find the relation in the editor), not consumers. Not mandatory, but still used in 93.20% of

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-24 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 24/01/2015, Andreas Goss andi...@t-online.de wrote: I really don't get this. If you are able to add house numbers, why would you be likely to fuck up street names? If at all seeing addr:street when on the ground is good, because you can be sure it's you are adding it to the right building

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-24 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 24.01.2015 13:12, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: Recomended isn't mandatory. The name tag of associatedStreet is only of use to mappers (to find the relation in the editor), not consumers. Not mandatory, but still used in 93.20% of relations. So ignoring the relation is not practically feasible.

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-24 Thread Andreas Goss
The counter-argument is that a novice is less likely to break the data when updating an area that is mapped using associatedStreet. I like the fact the fact that people need not even be aware of addresses in order to fix a street name. I disagree. Awareness is exactly what you need. I destroyed

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-23 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 23/01/2015 21:53, moltonel 3x Combo a écrit : Given that relations in general are not going away, the proper solution to the novices have trouble with relations problem is not to use less relations but to make relations easyer to edit and better documented. FWIW, I feel there is slow but

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-23 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 23/01/2015 20:53, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: +1 to all of that ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-23 Thread Jo
2015-01-23 21:53 GMT+01:00 moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com: On 22/01/2015, Johan C osm...@gmail.com wrote: From an OSM point-of-view, which includes being friendly towards novice users, relations should be avoided whenever possible. And associatedStreet relations are avoidable. The

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-23 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 22/01/2015, Johan C osm...@gmail.com wrote: From an OSM point-of-view, which includes being friendly towards novice users, relations should be avoided whenever possible. And associatedStreet relations are avoidable. The counter-argument is that a novice is less likely to break the data when

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-23 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 23.01.2015 21:53, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: The counter-argument is that a novice is less likely to break the data when updating an area that is mapped using associatedStreet. I like the fact the fact that people need not even be aware of addresses in order to fix a street name. That's not

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread Dan S
2015-01-22 6:53 GMT+00:00 Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com: It seems like the German community started some voting process on the deprecation of the associatedStreet-relation (it was on the mailing list and on the forum). Discussion is going on on the wiki

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread althio
Hi all - does anyone know what the geographic distribution of associatedStreet is like? taginfo doesn't render a map (it seems it doesn't do that for relations). This shows a map, I don't know if this is what you are looking for: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/type=associatedStreet#map

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 22. Januar 2015 11:45:47 MEZ, schrieb althio althio althio.fo...@gmail.com: Please vote here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Relation:associatedStreet Is this a formal voting? It is not as formal as a proposal voting. I would like to know how the community (those who

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread althio althio
It is not as formal as a proposal voting. I would like to know how the community (those who vote) think about associatedStreet relations. I think that in Germany the majority does not like them (anymore). I will announce a end date. This end date will be date of announcement of end of

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread althio althio
Please vote here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Relation:associatedStreet Is this a formal voting? Is there a date for start and end vote? It looks strange, hidden on a Talk:page without the usual template or RFC or call for votes on the international mailing lists. althio

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread Johan C
Good to have this discussion. From a computer expert point-of-view relations are fantastic for data integrity and to keep database size low. From an OSM point-of-view, which includes being friendly towards novice users, relations should be avoided whenever possible. And associatedStreet relations

Re: [Tagging] Deprecation of associatedStreet-relations

2015-01-22 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 22/01/2015 14:00, althio a écrit : Hi all - does anyone know what the geographic distribution of associatedStreet is like? taginfo doesn't render a map (it seems it doesn't do that for relations). UK http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/type=associatedStreet ~9000 PL