On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Alex Mauer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/19/2010 02:37 PM, Anthony wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Alex Mauer<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> And I agree that street relations are a better option in the long run, if >>> a >>> little silly for the majority of cases where a street consists of a >>> single >>> way (and also a usability nightmare in editors). But I also don’t think >>> that removing the names from every way in the hopes that someone will >>> notice >>> the problem and fix the renderer would be the right way to go. >> >> I certainly wouldn't recommend removing the names from the ways until >> you have the names in the relations. At the point where you do, sure, >> they should be removed. The idea that no one will ever create a >> renderer which uses the names in the relations is ludicrous. > > Agreed, but that does us little good when we’re trying to make a map in the > present, using the tools we have now.
That's not what I'm trying to do, because I don't see the point in trying to do that. There are much better places for me to get maps in the present. OSM, to me at least, is about the data, and how it can be used in the future. Especially in the United States. >> It would >> be trivial to write a preparser <snip explanation> > > Sounds good. Why hasn’t it been done, then? Because it's unnecessary, because no one has removed the ref tags from the ways. It's also more difficult to write the preparser when you have contradictory information on the ways. Part of the process of removing the information from the ways would be to reconcile inconsistencies and decide which of the two pieces of information is correct and which is incorrect. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
