[OSM-newbies] How to map routes

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Gavin Jamie <gjamie at doctors.org.uk> wrote:

> ***Utterly unofficial***
> The logical step from this is to make streets relations
> themselves of all of these little sections. This would
> also be useful for bridges (i.e. a road could be
> continuous with only a section being a bridge) and all of
> those non linear residential streets. It might make the
> rendering quite a bit clearer too. A route could have a
> reference the same and change its name several times
> (major routes through cities quite often do this).
>
> Now of course this seems to be taking us back to segments
> and ways, but at least this time the segments could have
> multiple nodes.

Possibly. But not really a discussion for the newbies list :-)

Cheers,
Andy