[OSM-newbies] Order of segments in a way

[Christoph Eckert]

>   I'm a bit confused! In a number of places on the wiki and elsewhere
>   there are oblique comments about the importance of ways being well
>   ordered, but I'm not exactly sure what this means in practice. My
>   instinct is that one (for example) residential road should be one
>   way, because otherwise a search for the street name will get
>   multiple hits. On the other hand if it's got lots of loops and
>   splits (or even just one), then the renderers will get confused
>   about where to put the name.

I'd split it in several logical parts.

Cheers,

ce