[OSM-newbies] Order of segments in a way

[Barry Crabtree]

On 4/21/07, Barry Crabtree <barry.crabtree at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 4/21/07, Stephen Gower <socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li> wrote:
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> > 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 [...]
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> > > I'd split it in several logical parts.
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> >   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?
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> If they are all "Reliance Way" then they should be tagged as such. The
> fact that current searches bring up a whole bunch of results is a problem
> for the search technology and should not impact on the way you tag ways.
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> Splitting ways into linear segments (i.e. no branches and/or loops) is
> seen as good practice (I think!) as it makes life easier for the renderers.
> However there is some debate on this (unless every way in OSM is done in
> this manner then the renderers still have to deal with it!).
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> Cheers. Baz
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