[Talk-ca] Cleaning up after the GeoBase import

[simon at mungewell.org]

> Simon,
>
> Combining the ways will defeat the possibilities of further use of the
> GeoBase data for the area.  Unfortunately the GeoBase NID is unique for
> the
> single segment only and combining multiple segments will make adding
> additional data based on those unique NIDs, such as address data,
> impossible
> as will further updates to the data in future GeoBase updates.

Nothing is impossible ;-) but I would concur that merging ways might make
such things more dificult to do.

Each item has history in OSM, so any simple action (such as merging a few
ways together along the length of a street) could be 'viewed past' by
processing software at the cost of making it more complicated.

The question would have to be what benefit does 'cleaning up' bring?

The biggest issue to the lay person (ie me) is neater naming of streets on
the map. Can the renderer be given enough smarts to know when join ways
with the same name should only have 1 name (or 1 every Xcm) rendered?

Simon