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 are avoidable.

Cheers, Johan

2015-01-22 21:46 GMT+01:00 Michael Reichert <naka...@gmx.net>:

> Hi,
>
> Am 2015-01-22 um 16:14 schrieb 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 <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.pl/tags/type=associatedStreet> ~1700
> > CZ </tags/type=associatedStreet> ~ 100
> > HU <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.hu/tags/type=associatedStreet> ~ 130
> > SE <http://se.taginfo.openstreetmap.se/tags/type=associatedStreet> >
> 900
> > RU <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.ru/tags/type=associatedStreet> 1850
> > FR is down
> > No stats for DE
> >> This shows a map, I don't know if this is what you are looking for:
> >> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/type=associatedStreet#map
> >>
> >>
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/type=associatedStreet#combinations
> >> also shows that
> >> 61 307 / 218 176 = 28.10% are also tagged with ref:FR:FANTOIR=*
> >> so from France.
> > 28 % at least !
>
> Overpass-API results for Germany (count function which is marked as
> experimental): 48.732 relations (I did not count their members)
>
> housenumbers in Germany total (including those which belong to
> associatedStreet relations): 7.762.395 [1]
>
> For comparison, number of addr:housenumber (number of associatedStreet
> relations in brackets, copied from above) in
> United Kingdom: 840 437 (9000)
> Poland: 5 173 771 (1700)
> Czech Republic: 2 824 442 (100)
> Hungary: 64 276 (130)
> Sweden: 341 533 (900)
> Russia: 2 444 832 (1850)
>
> [1] data from 2015-01-11, user Gehrke,
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Gehrke#Entwicklung_des_Adressbestandes
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
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