On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Andy Allan wrote:
> If I peer into my crystal ball, I can see physical attributes (width,
> surface, lanes) being on ways, and non-physical attributes
> (references, routes, even street names) moving to relations. Ways will
> end up being a connected series of nodes, ending where the properties
> change. That's just my hunch.
I'd agree with that.
> But there's no hurry. We're short on developers, and documentation
> writers, and have a huge community to think about. There's no point in
> forcing the pace on this issue - our efforts would be better focussed
> on forcing the pace on actual mapping - there's still a staggering
> amount of streets to be mapped (even just considering Europe),
> regardless of how we tag them.
Indeed - this is why I'm very dubious about putting too much stock into
relations until things like the editors and documentation have caught up a
bit more. Far better to get the data into the database in a simplistic
form and make it better later rather than confusing people too much
(confused people will make more mistakes, reducing the quality of the
data).
- Steve
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