[OSM-newbies] Dual carriageway bowties

[Andy Allan]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Owlman<owlman at 1nsane.info> wrote:
> Hello -
> What's the easiest way to fix bowties / pinch-points at a
> dual-carriageway intersection?--that is, where the two parallel ways
> merge to one node where they intersect the cross-street.
> I think I remember reading about this on the Wiki (it was a problem
> from the TIGER import perhaps?) but now I can't for the life of me
> find that page :)

Are tyou referring to "Braided Streets"? If so, you could either run
the scripts (I've no idea if they still work, since we've changed API
versions since they were written) or post information to that page and
ask for someone else to look into it.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tiger_fixup#Braided_streets

Cheers,
Andy