[OSM-talk] The segments vs ways vs superways question again...

[Jochen Topf]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:37:53PM +0000, Tom Chance wrote:
> > Way splitting tools may be useful (add a way join tool too!)... or just do
> > a
> > complete rethink. Maybe some automatic backend things like reordering
> > ways,
> > or autosplitting branches.
> 
> Would it be possible to run a "clean up bad data" tool on the server to do this, rather like the spellchecker? It couldn't be too difficult to look at each way and re-order the segments so they face in the right direction and are in sequence... he says as he offers 0mins of his pathetic programming skills to help =) That would be *much* better than us manually cleaning up all of the bad ways on the system. It's enough work already fixing areas I come across whilst entering my own data in a small area!

Can't be done fully automatic. What do you do if you have a way with
several unordered segments with the tag oneway=true? If you change this
you could change the way the oneway goes. So generally this can't be
done fully automatic, but you could have a specialized tool that tells
you about the problematic cases and offers you an option to fix them
easily.

Jochen
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