[OSM-newbies] Branching ways

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Robert Leeming schrieb:
> 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.
> 
> Should these branches be mapped as separate ways with the same name?

yes.
To ease tagging you can first create all the ways, then select all of
them at once and tag away, this way you have to enter highway and name
and so forth only once.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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