[OSM-newbies] Fwd: Branching ways

[Richard Fairhurst]

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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:55:24 +0100
Subject: Branching ways
From: Robert Leeming <bob.leeming at automationprojects.co.uk>
To: Newbies at openstreetmap.org

Hi all,

I'm sure I read somewhere that ways should not branch.  There are  
residential streets near me that either Y-shaped, or have short  
side-streets named and numbered as part of the main road.

What is the right way to map these topologies?

Bob