[OSM-newbies] Order of segments in a way

[Stephen Gower]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 01:18:15PM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
>> 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 [...]
> 
> I'd split it in several logical parts.

  OK, in the example I gave in Oxford, that's a minimum of 12 ways if
  none of them is going to have a t-junction at all.  Should I give
  them *all* the name="Reliance Way" attribute?
  
  s