So while it seems to be a polygon vs tags on ways discussion: I wonder what people have against using relations to combine all roads in one built-up area, or one maxspeed zone, or some other kind of zone. It's really the cleanest option and allows for additional tags like a name, and it allows everything to be more clearly defined, and allows for a method which is much more flexible and allows for extended properties.
I guess these arguments will come up: * it's not newbie friendly relations are one of only three basic structures in OSM (node - way - relation), can we please assume that someone mapping with OSM can grasp three concepts? He already should be able to deal with them now anyway. * relations will become huge in some cities some relations are already huge, just look out for some cross continental E roads, or some long walking or cycling routes. * you'll forget to add some roads to the relation and you'll also forget to add tags to roads if you do it that way -- it's entirely the same issue you have to deal with. And that's what error checkers are for. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
