[OSM-dev] ways with 'spurs'

[Andy Robinson]

Robert Hart wrote:
>Sent: 26 February 2007 9:59 AM
>To: Robert (Jamie) Munro; Barry Crabtree; dev at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] ways with 'spurs'
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>> IMHO, not if they're the same road, there's no point. I live in a
>> cul-de-sac with fork in it, and it would be stupid to have to tag it
>> twice, especially if this meant the name was rendered twice.
>Osmarender
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>You don't have to tag it twice. Just create both ways. Select them both,
>and then tag. (in general tag names individually, but apply highway etc.
>tags in groups)
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>If the name only renders once on a branched way, then you'd have to be
>quite careful to avoid ambiguity.
>

Yes, you should name each way that is part of the same feature with the same
tags. If you don't want to display the name of a particular way you can set
an additional tag to not render the name.

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 



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