What do you mean by 'factorize'?

Jo


2014-03-13 15:00 GMT+01:00 André Pirard <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com>:

>  Hi,
>
> How great to finally more than an empty 
> page<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:associatedStreet>!!!
> But now, if that relation factorizes (2) "street name" shouldn't it
> factorize addr: city, country, postcode too?
> Shouldn't those keys be allowed in the relation?
> Shouldn't those who know the deep secrets of that relation write that down
> in this page instead of various messages I see?
>
> But I have a little problem here<http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/176885423>
> .
> addr:housenumber is on a node.
> If the relation contains
>
>    - Way Le Théâtre à Denis 
> (176885423)<http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/176885423>as house
>    - Node 1873693518 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1873693518> as
>    house
>
> JOSM diagnoses
> "Member for role house of wrong type" - Role verification problem
>    2 objects: Rue Sainte-Marguerite, Le Théâtre à Denis
>
> Now if I remove the second member (1), JOSM diagnoses *2 problems*:
> House number without street
> "Member for role house of wrong type" - Role verification problem
>    2 objects: Rue Sainte-Marguerite, Le Théâtre à Denis
>
> (1) the role is "house" but the descriptive comment very vaguely, tersely
> and strangely describes it as "one or more house numbers" which is logical.
> Should I assume that "house" is a misnomer, that it means "address" and
> that I need only the node?
>
> (2) After having received the message below, quoting the worst written
> article of all the wiki, always invoked without justifications,  saying
> that "I have not understood" that relations are not made to factorize tags
> of all members, I am surprised to see associatedStreet factorize the
> "street" tag of all of its "house" members.
> Who did not understand?
> A relation, whatever its type but probably not associatedStreet, could as
> well factorize a speed limit or any zone.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   André.
> On 2012-11-22 01:34, sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote :
>
> Hi,
>
> Le mercredi 21 novembre 2012 22:53:53, A.Pirard.Papou a écrit :
>
>  Look at multilinestring, which I see as a swiss-knife way assembly.
>
> In my mind, such a relation is the way to assign the same tags to a
> collection of objects making a whole with regard to those tags.  If we
> add recursion (nesting), which is very easy to do, that's powerful.
>
>  You misunderstood the idea/goal behind the multilinestring proposal. It 
> wasn't
> created to factorize tags of all members. It was used to record one real life
> feature made of 2 or more OSM way objects. (like a long river, a boundary
> between two countries all made of hundreds of ways)
>
> A key sentence has been added to avoid using it badly :
>
> "Do not use it to group loose ways : Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories
> (like all path in a forest) Example : if the name is not the same for all
> those ways, then you'd better not use this relation"
>
> What you are looking for is a category thing to group "loose ways" sharing a
> common property but relation weren't made for that 
> :http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories
>
>
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