[OSM-talk] adjoining ways with the same name

[Ulf Lamping]

David Bishop wrote:
> I would assume (and have mapping with this assumption) that the renderer
> would notice the next section has the same name, and not worry about it.
>   
As a newbie myself I'm using the osmarender plugin and see how it looks 
like in the firefox output.

Helped me a lot to get things right (hopefully).
> Or, maybe more likely, do I just not know how to tag stuff like this
> right, and it should all be one way :-)  *shrug*  I'm still fairly
> newbie-ish, and using the lint plugin, already found a ton of things
> that I've been doing wrong (thanks, josm-lint-plugin-guys!)
>   
Instead of looking at it later, it might be better to check for obvious 
problems right as you enter them.

E.g.: I *frequently* select a few segments and add name and highway tags 
to them, instead of adding a way first. While I had a deeper look at the 
Nürnberg map, it seems I'm not the only one making that mistake ;-)

As adding a highway tag to a segment is probably always wrong, having at 
least a warning - or probably something like: "do you want me to add a 
way first?" kind of question would make a lot more sense in my eyes than 
to manually check and fix things "later".

I know that this is not possible for all tags (e.g. some tags are 
possible for nodes, segments and ways) and it's probably not even 
desirable for all tags.

But having - where possible and useful - something like a "syntax check" 
right while you are editing seems a lot more time saving than to check 
things afterwards.

Regards, ULFL