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 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. Being able to add/fix housenumbers without having to worry about addr:street (which would be very cumbersome on mobile devices editors - editing while surveying FTW) is also a big plus. 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 steady progress in that domain. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
