[OSM-dev] ways with 'spurs'

[Nick Whitelegg]

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>I've come across some ways that go:

>   A -> B -> C -> B -> D

>Shouldn't they be done as:

>   A -> B -> D, with a separate way B -> C?

A contentious point, but I would say "yes".  It makes renderers and data 
models with no notion of two-point segments (only multi-point polylines) 
handle the data better, e.g. shapefiles.

Nick