[Talk-us] braided streets

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:12 -0700, Alan Millar wrote:
> AFAIK Tiger doesn't have the concept of ways like we do; it just has
> the
> short segments.  I expect that our script takes Tiger segments and
> assembles them into longer ways.  In this case, it appears our script
> didn't know which segments went with which logical ways.

Yes, that's exactly it.  I tried to assemble the shorter TIGER segments
into longer ways.  I wasn't horribly thorough about it.  If the ways had
the same name, I combined them.  This leads to some "interesting" street
sometimes, but it was a bit better than a couple million two-node
ways. :)

-- Dave