On 27.08.2010 08:06, [email protected] wrote:
contra arguments:
- renderers possibly render more than one name for one street. To
solve that
It's not (only) a rendering issue. The name of the road is
"Foo street", but the sidewalk doesn't have a name of its
own; it shouldn't be named.
As the sidewalk is defined as part of the street, not another way, it is
named in my interpretation.
Your argument counts, if you say the same for the street itself.
To be precise we would have to set no name to the street, too and add
some kind of relation carrying the name.
As that's difficult to do I would prefer to be a little bit unprecise in
the other direction, naming sidewalk and street the same.
I'm not generally against that argument - I give it equally weight to my
opinion at current. I would prefer to get mor opinions ;)
If people feel it's necessary to "tie" it to a specific nearby
way, go for some other tag; sidewalk_of=Foo street ?
This alternative has two drawbacks leading me to prefer my variant:
- sidewalk_of is a new tag with has to be known by mappers.
- I don't see, where it's more powerful than just naming the footway +
setting it as sidewalk
Some have
proposed relations for making up whole streets, but it hasn't
gained much use with house numbering - most use the tag
addr:street - so I doubt it would happen with sidewalks, either.
That's the reason for my idea not to use a relation, yes.
regards
Peter
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