[OSM-talk] Statistics on planet.osm.gz

[Immanuel Scholz]

Hi,

> I've not mapped any of these yet, but what do we do with Ways that change
> names, or have multiple names, e.g. the A38 (a road going from the south
> west of England oop north somewhere through the middle of cities) must be
> called  about  300 other names, and the other names are the more important
> ones in the towns and cities, but the fact it's the A38 is also useful?

Maybe you create two different ways on top of each other. One for the
highway and one for the local street. That would be usefull to assign
different attributes too (e.g. class=minor and class=highway...)


Ciao, Imi.