Again, you are obviously not talking about the same thing.
2014-07-16 16:59 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson <[email protected]>: > I'm going to have to side with Pieren against the network relation. Just > spitballing, but that would roughly mean one network per county, and an > additional 1-8 networks per state, occasionally one network per city, and > at least 3 for national in the US alone, bringing nothing to the table that > can't be accomplished in a far more manageable way in what would be each > member relation. And I'm only talking road networks, and not the tens of > thousands of potentially mappable transit, bicycle, hiking networks. It's > like hydroponic tomatoes: a great way to seriously complicate growing > without much payoff except in very few edge scenarios. > On Jul 15, 2014 10:59 AM, "Pieren" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I discover that OSM contains 1575 relations of "type=network" >> (taginfo). I guess its definition is coming from this wiki proposal: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Network >> >> Quotes: >> "A network groups together routes that share common characteristics, >> e.g. a common operator, a common classification scheme (e.g. E-road >> network: "E 1", ..., "E 999"), ... " >> >> "Use cases >> >> Person A sees a bus route with number 217 and wonders how many other >> bus routes exist in that city. >> >> Renderer M wants to render all German motorways using white font on >> blue sign (official layout), and all E-roads with white font on green >> sign. This can be implemented by adding rules for 20614 (view, XML, >> Potlatch2, iD, JOSM, history, analyze, manage, gpx) and 20645 (view, >> XML, Potlatch2, iD, JOSM, history, analyze, manage, gpx). >> >> Renderer M wants to render all cycle routes that belong to the >> "D-Netz". However, there are a lot of other national cycle routes as >> well. " >> >> Plus some attached relations examples very explicite. >> >> As raised in the "discussion" page, is that not exactly breaking the >> "relations are not categories" ([1]) principle ? Can we delete such >> relations when we meet them ? >> >> Pieren >> >> [1] >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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