[OSM-dev] Processing dual carriageway highways into one linestring?`

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Fri Oct 18 10:14:38 UTC 2019


You would also have to know how many ways there are, just looking for 2 is
not sufficient, because there could be 3, 4, 5, 6 or even more. Around here
I've a situation with 6 parallel carriageways:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/41.86472/12.49702
some meters north of this spot, they are even 7 for a short length (or 8,
if you count the cycleway and 9 if you also count the parking aisle).

And you would have to decide when not to do it, for example Via Palos runs
for some time parallely but then makes a turn and passes under the bridge:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/257174994#map=17/41.86821/12.49583

And if there are ways that run along the "principal" highway for some time
at only one side, but then vanish, and you calculate the center for the
"synthesis", it will put corners or curves in your main way which actually
runs straight.

You will surely have to define a maximum distance threshold for this
unification, and you always will have edge cases around this threshold
which can cause inconsistency.

Depending on your purpose, you also may want to not unify parallel ways
when they run on different levels, e.g. one on a bridge or embankment (e.g.
along a retaining wall), or in a cutting.

As you probably know, the typical OSM solution for this is raster
rendering, because then the ways merge visually and "automatically" (as
their width is usually exagerated and layer ordering renders first the
casing then the fill).


Cheers
Martin
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