On 9 February 2010 13:47, Apollinaris Schoell <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) theory: tags on the super relation will always supersede tags lower in > hierarchy. conflicting tags don't matter.
Actually this is disjointed, ways should override relations and relations should override super relations. > 2) practical editing: we are talking about a relation hierarch consisting of > thousands of members. they have to be split for many reasons. editing speed, > upload speed, query speed … > some have been created when Potlatch worked in live mode only and josm speed > exponentially decrease with the size of a relation, uploads didn't finish > because of network/server interrupts > as an example relation 94043 has 1512 members and 937 versions. this only one > direction. other direction has 1525 members. It is not possible to get the > history from the server "Sorry, the data for the relation with the id 94043, > took too long to retrieve." > any split of any road segment for a bridge, speed limit change … requires a > new version and increases the number of members. > do you still think a potential inconsistency has any relevance compared to > this? Yes, all you are doing is coming up with work arounds to current issues, the issues should be fixed properly. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
