On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Ed Loach <[email protected]> wrote: > That's what I always thought and this page reinforces that. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations_are_not_categories > > But (and I don't speak German) what about the relations listed on > this page with type=set? > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stolpersteine > > Relations get widely misused, but I don’t think we should add to the > misuse.
Using relations as categories is just litter really - making the data more complicated than it needs to be: if the relation isn't recording some form of geospatial relationship, then it's just a lazy way of grabbing a set of data. You can equally well grab the data by specifying tags and a bbox. Putting some extra tags on nodes doesn't cause database bloat. Putting in lots of extra nodes does, but I think we have to find other ways of dealing with that (osmosis for dummies would be a start). Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
