On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Simone Saviolo <simone.savi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/8/19 Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de>: >> On 19.08.2010 16:27, Simone Saviolo wrote: >>> So, if the name of a street is changed for whatever reason, I have to >>> go through the, maybe, several hundreds of house numbers on that way, >>> change the addr:street on every single one of them, and then hope the >>> name isn't changed again too soon? >> >> No, you bring up JOSM's search box, type "addr:street"=TheStreetName >> and change them all at once. > > Well, duh, of course! But since when is "let's change a thousand > items!" a better strategy than "let's make a relation between the two > things"?
According to the wiki page I linked to, this has always been the case, since relations were never meant to handle a thousand items. I wonder, how does associatedStreet work if the address is a route, such as "489 United States Highway 1"? _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
