On 18.08.2010 19:21, Anthony wrote:
put a reference to the street into the way
for the building, not a way to put a reference to the building into
the way for the street. One possibility is to just use
addr:street=way:37863 or addr:street=relation:28917. But as there
would be no maintenance of referential integrity, that wouldn't be
without its dangers.
Isn't addr:street="Main Street" enough?
pro's:
- to search for a house, only searching through local tags (of nodes or
areas describing buildings/housenumbers) is enough.
- to search for the associated street of the house process a
nearby-search for the street-name, as the same streetname usually
doesn't appear twice in a city
- maintaining is easy as changing ways for the street don't care.
Navigation systems should IMHO do some preprocessing to the data - means
e.g. connecting houses to nodes at the street for routing.
con's:
references in attributes are error prone, I fear.
1) some people reuse old ways when editing (should not be, but is often
the case)
2) deletions, edits and additions would break the relation, if not
maintained carefully, what's a lot of work.
So I prefer to add the street name to the street (as name) and
addr:street to the building/shop etc.
regards
Peter
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