On 19 Feb 2009, at 22:16, Matthias Julius wrote: > Jonathan Bennett <[email protected]> writes: > >> Matthias Julius wrote: >>> I just prefer to explicitly link objects together over duplication >>> of >>> data. >>> >> As long as the buildings are tagged consistently, having the tag is >> probably enough -- you can then use XAPI to query the DB for all >> buildings by a particular architect. > > IF they are tagged consistently. This is exactly the point. > > Especially with names of persons there might be several different ways > to spell them which all might be correct, for example: > > Hundertwasser > Friedensreich Hundertwasser > Hundertwasser, Friedensreich > F. Hundertwasser > Hundertwasser, F. > > There are more variations possible when there are middle names > involved. Additionally there are any number of mis-spellings > possible. With names from foreign languages this is not even that > impossible. >
And if you use a relation, people won't bother searching for the relation. This kind of information should be an attribute of the building. Shaun _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
