David Earl wrote: > If you want to apply a bridge number to the bridge, there's no reason > you shouldn't, vote or no vote. And if something were to render it, not > doubt it would look right. > > However, the thing you are putting the number on has no easy linkage to > the canal. If you were boating along the canal and wanted your satnav to > pop up the next bridge number, it would have a hard time doing that > because there's nothing actually linked to the canal to tell it.
Ways intersecting the canal way, with a foo_ref attribute? > Of course it could do some tests to find out what bridges pass over the > canal by analysing more data in the area, but these are complicated > tests. By relating the bridge to the canal you are attaching the bridge > number with the thing it is relevant to - the canal - rather than the > thing the bridge is attached to - the road crossing it. Well OK, I see that point. But reading that page, at least, it really looks like setting up such a relation is a complicated business. Is it in fact complicated, or is the page just explaining it badly? If it is complicated, does it really need to be? Gerv _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
