When the name, operator,etc. has to be moved down to the routes and nodes, we have prefix all those tags with e.g. network. So we get network:name, network:operator on each node and route, right ?
Please note the network relations are not used to group all routes and nodes in a country or province. When you are interested in the nodes & routes of 1 network you can only do this via the name of the network. So a spatial query won't help much in that case, although I admit that it might not be interesting to limit the query to a specific network and not to a geographical region. BTW, I wouldn't mind to start using a tagging schema that doesn't use network relations. regards m On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Jo <[email protected]> wrote: > > The same is true for cycling and equestrian networks with numbered nodes. > > There are a few of those networks in Germany as well. > > These are not collections/categories. They are networks of route > relations. > > Well, you could do the same for all McDonald's restaurants in > Netherlands or all pharmacies in a network or bank branches in Belgium > and say "we move one tag to the upper relation to avoid its > repetition". What is done by such relations can be done by a query in > the database with one or two arguments (like the "operator" or > "network" tag) and a bbox (see XAPI, overpass, etc for more info). > Repeating the network or operator or brand name is not a problem for > many features in OSM. I don't see why we should create an exception > for footway routes. > As it was writen by Frederik Ramm in 2008 ([1]): > "Our database is a spatial database; this means that it has intrinsic > knowledge about the location of objects. If you want to know about all > footways in East Anglia, simply pass in a bounding box of East Anglia > and request all footways, and the collection is made for you > on-the-fly." > > Pieren > > [1] > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories&oldid=179750 > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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