[OSM-talk] Forking ways?

[Andy Robinson]

The now preferred method is to break it up into separate linear ways with no
forks although perhaps there should be more discussion whether you make the
central loop a single way in these instances. The total number of ways would
be 5 if you did that and only 4 if you ignore the loop. Probably name
rendering preferences play a part.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Frith
>Sent: 23 January 2007 11:33 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Forking ways?
>
>Hi folks,
>
>I'm mapping a suburb which has quite a lot of streets that "fork"; in
>fact I have one street name which looks like:
>
>          |
>          |
>          |
>          +----------+---------
>          |          |
>          |          |
>          |          |
>          |          |
>----------+----------+---------
>
>The question I have is: do I make all the segments into one way that
>forks and isn't topologically a line; or do I make several ways with the
>same name, dividing it up into separate non-forking lines?
>
>Thanks,
>Adrian Frith