[OSM-talk] How to extend a way?

[Andy Robinson]

Personally I think its better for the present not to make ways overly long.
That way the limitations of the editing platform(s) won't cause a problem.
So for now I am generally making motorways continuous ways only between
intersections, much the same as I do for other major highways.

There is nothing stopping selective merging in the future that way.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Martyn Welch
>Sent: 14 July 2006 18:56
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] How to extend a way?
>
>On Thursday 13 July 2006 23:32, Erik Johansson wrote:
>> > Or you just click on the way-mode button, then click on the way to
>> > modify and finally subsequently click on every segment to add. :-)
>>
>> Which after about 540km would be kind of tedious... ;-)
>
>One problem linked to this is gaining all the segments associated with in
>existing way (which I believe you need to be able to upload the altered
>way,
>at least in JOSM).
>
>Say for example the way was the M6 (reasonalby long British motorway).
>Other
>than trying to either work out a load of small downloads to track the
>length
>of the way or downloading a large percentage of the UK (probably ending up
>with a section of France as well), is there any easy way to cause any of
>the
>offline clients to download all segments of an existing way regardless of
>area?
>
>Also, different ways are likely to be started in different areas all
>providing
>part of the total, is there anyway to merge ways?
>
>I guess the answer is "no" for now, though I can see things like this
>becoming
>quite important to those trying to create/extend long ways.
>
>Martyn
>
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