[Talk-us] braided streets

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:12 -0700, Alan Millar wrote:
> 
> Another question is what do we want to do with the intersections?
> Should
> it be a single node, or two nodes?  I just dealt with this at:
> 
> http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=45.553593680216935&lon=-122.68115036884754&zoom=17&layers=B000F000F
> 
> In this case it is a split street with light rail tracks down the
> middle. 
> I made it three nodes where the two directions of the street and the
> tracks cross the perpendicular street.  Although logically it is one
> intersection, I think it looks better on the map this way.

The way you've done it looks OK to me.  It's definitely the way that the
street is laid out physically.

The only thing I might do differently is not have the node shared
between the railway and the streets.  That's what I did for the TIGER
upload: created two nodes at the same location.  One for the street, one
for the railway.

-- Dave