On 21 January 2011 13:50, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote: > I know that storage is cheap, but there seems little point having the full > address attached as tags to every house. Just as other information that is > available at 'higher level' does not need to be duplicated every time. If > one looks up 'road' one should see a list of attached houses. How one finds > 'road', be it name or postcode, does not matter. Having all that 'road' > information on every building is just wrong ... just as having 'is_in' for > every higher level search term would be. But then no one has ever agreed > with my suggestions on hierarchy :(
This is why I've been using the associatedStreet relation suggested by the Karlsruhe Schema (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema#Using_relations_to_associate_house_and_street_.28optional.29) -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
