[OSM-newbies] How to map routes

Eric Ladner eric.ladner at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 16:20:49 BST 2008


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
...
> The downside here is that it disconnects the route from the streets
> the route follows.. you can piece this back together by working out
> where it follows the same nodes as a street, but this is quite
> complicated to do, and not necessarily reliable. For certain uses such
> as automatically describing a route, it makes much more sense if the
> proper street object is used.

So the only proper way to do it (in the aforementioned case) is to split the
ways where the route turns so you can select the individual pieces of the
route to add it to the relation, true?

-- 
Eric Ladner




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