[Tagging] Using route=road to group the segments of a street(was: Re: Reasons for associatedStreet?)

[Elena of Valhalla]

On 9/3/10, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> One thing to remember, as well, is that there are likely to be differences
> of opinion on whether disjoint segments are to be considered part of the
> same street or not.  [...]
>  So, having any sort of automated process join these streets in
> a relation based upon shared names would result in confusion.

I agree that having an automated process to include ways with the same
name in a relation would be error prone, and I wasn't suggesting it;
OTOH, I don't think that I have ever seen a case where it would be
hard for a *human* mapper with local knowdlege to decide whether some
ways are part of the same road or not.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

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