On Sunday 08 February 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Laenen wrote: > > OK, as long as there's no limit on the number of relation members, > > I'm happy :-) > > I'm pretty sure there will be, it is not implemented yet but I > believe we said it would be 1.000. Relations with more members become > very hard to work with.
And why is that? We cannot just split relations. I thought it was the whole purpose of relations to have everything together. So I guess you then propose something like a "super-relation". But that's not exactly user friendly: suppose I started tagging a 200 km long walking route from two opposite sides and work toward each other. So they now suddenly realize that you reached 1000 ways and haven't closed the gap in between. So now you'd have to add a new relation between those two parts to be able to finish the route? And too bad if you've reached 1000 ways in one relation and need to split a way up into two. I don't think there are any tools normal users can work with to completely reorganize relations. Furthermore, relations into relations are usually completely unsupported at all (renderers or editors). If the API really cannot work well with big relations, improve the API then. That's the whole point of having a new API, right? But adding such a limit just because the API doesn't really like it sounds like "when I drive backwards with my car, the engine makes funny noises, so I fixed it by not allowing the gear handle to be put into reverse, thus eliminating all the funny noises problems". Ben _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
