[OSM-talk] conclusions from my postgres / postgis experiments

Nick Whitelegg Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Thu Nov 23 12:08:04 GMT 2006


>I'm not entirely sure why... I'm imagining a routing algorithim that
>will notice that its on a way with the same name as the one it was just
>driving on and that's it. Are there any use cases for super ways?

I would have thought so, e.g.:

1. If the A1234, as it passes through the town, takes on various names. 
Each individual named bit is the way and the A1234 is the super-way.

2. If the first half mile of Bloggs Street is an unclassified road used 
for through traffic and the remaining quarter mile is a residential 
street. The unclassified and residential bits are the ways, Bloggs Street 
is the superway.

3. Those branched estate roads. Each branched bit could be the way, the 
whole thing the superway.

Nick






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