[Tagging] Ways that change names while crossing divided roadways

Alan Mintz Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.Net
Mon Apr 26 23:37:57 BST 2010


At 2010-04-25 04:01, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Lauri_Kyt=F6maa?= wrote:

> >That's one solution. What I usually do is to bring the ways back together
> >to form a single intersection at that point, which is technically more
>
>There was a community effort to remove all such cases wherever they
>existed in the imported TIGER data.
>
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup#Braided_streets
>
>The roads are straight through the intersection, so the ways should be
>straight.

The description and the picture seem to say that a "braided street" is one 
where the ways change sides (and are therefore are going the wrong 
direction sometimes). This is different than what I proposed.

--
Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>





More information about the Tagging mailing list