[OSM-talk] cadastre, ways, rendering

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Marcus Bauer schrieb:

> 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:

I cut up the A1 at every exit that connects to a "Bundesstraße", but
really it's about the editing that is helped by shorter ways.

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

While it's correct that the signs may overlap it is very wrong to leave
out the ref tag on one of the ways, because a routing application
wouldn't know. So for correct maps always tag every way of the motorway
with all important information like highway, ref and name (if applicable).

The resulting ugliness can and will be worked out in the renderer, don't
leave out names on ways just because it's ugly, and that isn't limited
to motorways either, but to any data entered into OSM.
if you have some ugly names showing in segments of road where the name
shouldn't be rendered, put a tag like "osmarender:renderName=no" instead
of leaving it out.


Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie

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