[OSM-newbies] How to map routes

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Eric Ladner <eric.ladner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Correct.

Cheers,
Andy