[OSM-newbies] ways, bridges, and divided highways

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Tuesday 21 August 2007 08:35:10 Jeffrey Martin escribió:
> I have a highway with two lanes in each direction. I made two parallel
> paths of line segments with arrows going in opposite directions. I
> combined the two parallel lines into a single way. Is this correct?

No - ways should be contiguous. Please use the "split way" tool in JOSM to 
split that way into two separate ways.

> A road interrupted by a bridge is supposed to have a way on each side
> of the bridge and a way for the bridge for a total of three. Why
> shouldn't I have the road on either side of the bridge belong to the
> same way? JOSM seems to let me do this.

For the same reason; ways should be contiguous.

The guys at dev are working towars a new data model so ways could be grouped 
and share common properties, but it will take some time.

Regards,
-- 
Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org>