[Talk-ca] PEI NRN import 21I16 - and questions about ways

[Robert Shand]

Hello Everyone,

I've completed the initial steps of the NRN import for part of NW PEI. 

NTS 21I16 the files can be found here - http://www.shand.org.uk/osm/NRNImport/21I/16/

The last part of the precess is making sure that everything is joined appropriately to the current roads - that process continues.

However I would like peoples thoughts....

Take a look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.8381&lon=-64.1547&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF

Here we see the renderer has places lots of the markers for the road number/name.

Taking a look at the data in JOSM we can see that the road 151 (like many of the others) is comprised of many ways

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However if I try to combine the ways I'm getting a conflict on the geobase::uuid

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So my question boils down to how do we want to handle this.

We shouldn't be mapping for the renderer, but the numerous markers on the map do look odd.  In my mind the numerous ways should be combined into one way, however if I do that I naturally have to lose some of the geobase data like the uuid.  If we get newer higher quality geobase data matching up the roads might more painful without the correct uuid.

What are peoples thoughts?

Thanks

Bob