[OSM-talk] multiple overlapping ways or snipped up ways?

[Nic Roets]

On 6/10/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Or you can create a parent object that supplies all tags not explicitly
> overridden.

That will be a step forward, but in many cases it will still require
splits, e.g. road starts out with name=A, highway=residential then
goes over a bridge, then changes name and at the end it becomes a
track and then a footway.

I guess I just invented way to represent a way without pointers. In
XML this might be :
<way...>
<tag k=name v=A>
<tag k=highway v=residential>
<seg...>
...
<seg...>
<tag k=layer v=1>
<seg...>
<tag k=layer v=0>
<seg...>
...
<seg...>
<tag k=name v=B>
<seg...>
...
<seg...>
<tag k=highway v=track>
<seg...>
<tag k=highway v=footway>
<seg...>
</way>