[OSM-talk] Drawing only using ways (getting rid of segments)

[Nigel Magnay]

The last one sounds right. Your editor should notice where you are splitting
'super'ways into 'sub'ways, and upload the correct ways accordingly.

E.g : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Example_Simplified_Database


On 25/09/06, Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/25/06, Etienne <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Think of ways as a replacement for segments.  Segments can have only two
> > nodes.  Ways can have as many nodes as you need.  So ways are better
> than
> > segments.  One day soon ways will be re-defined as a list of nodes
> instead
> > of a list of segments.  Then all segements will be replaced by ways with
> > just two nodes.  After that, no more segments.
> >
>
>
> If this scheme is used how can I make a street named "Jobbigagatan",
> this street changes some attributes over it's course and keeps some.
> E.g. some parts of it is one way, it can only be used by cars.
>
> This is how I can work:
> * So I place all its nodes
>
> then either like this:
> ** make a way, with a name and all the attributes tagged
> ** make a new way for each one way section
>
> or  like this:
> ** for each one way section
> *** make a way from the nodes belonging to it
> *** tag it with all the attributes and the name.
> *** next one way section
>
> Or like this:
> ** make a way from all the nodes name and tag it:
> ** make ways from all the one way sections, tag them as oneway. Bind
> them to the first way we created. (creating a superway, with lots of
> "sub"-ways)
>
> /erik
>
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