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

[Dean Earley]

Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> Ed Davies wrote: In fact, why do we need ways? I think tags should be
> applied directly to arbitrary groups of segments. So the tag
> "ref=M25" would have all the segments that make up the M25 in it's
> group. The tag "highway=motorway" would have all motorways etc. We'd
> need to be a bit careful to make sure that roads with the same name
> in different towns are logically kept separated, but that shouldn't
> be too hard to do. Of course this is a major change to the data that
> can't be easily retrofitted, so I should probably leave it to one
> side.

This is exactly how it used to be.

> We'd need to be a bit careful to make sure that roads with the same
> name in different towns are logically kept separated, but that
> shouldn't be too hard to do.

Yes, its called a way :o)

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