[OSM-newbies] Dual carriageway bowties

[Owlman]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Andy Allan<gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Yes, that's it!
Now that I look at the history on the few braided ways I see, it
appears they are the result of someone making a parallel way, instead
of an artifact from the Tiger import.  So, I'll just fix 'em manually.

Thanks,
-Noah