[Openstreetmap] road names

[Simon Hewison]

topro at gmx.de wrote:
> Hi OSM,   
>    
> I have a question/idea for the new feature to name road segments.   
> Wouldn't it be even better if one could group 'line segments' to a 'road'   
> and then name the 'road' once instead of naming all line segments   
> belonging to one road with the same name?   
> What do others think about that?   

Yes, according to the REST documentation, and data primitives, we should 
have a way of naming a street, rather than just a line segment.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/DataPrimitives

I think the issue here is that the editing applet currently has no 
facility to do a multple selection and form a street from multiple line 
segments.

-- 
Simon Hewison