[OSM-talk] cadastre, ways, rendering

[Marcus Bauer]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 00:02 +0100, Florian Loitsch wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 21:47, you wrote:

> > You can select multiple ways in JOSM by shift-clicking with the select
> > tool, or by using the search tool (if the ways already have some common
> > tags)
> > another approach would be to create one long (non-contiguous) way,
> > tagging it, and then use the split way tool to convert those into
> > separate, contiguous ways.
> I consider this to be a hack, but if that's how it's supposed to work I'll do 
> as told.
> I think however, that contiguous ways should not be split (and state this as a 
> rule). As already mentioned: our local motorway is split in the middle, and 
> it is IMHO not realistic to ask people to get the whole motorway from the OSM 
> site before annotating it (how else would I know if the motorway is 
> interrupted).


That's the reason why ways shouldn't be too long. I.e. for a motorway it
is a good idea to start a new way after each exit. The renderer will
then produce nice maps (and that is what it is all about): it will add
in the middle of each segment the highway reference, like so:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=43.7046584805283&lon=7.259499907493593&zoom=15

Actually you don't need to tag both sides of a highway with its
reference. It will just produce overlapping signs on the map.

Marcus