[OSM-talk] Length of Ways between cities?

[Andy Robinson]

Hakan Tandogan wrote:
>Sent: 06 March 2007 3:04 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Length of Ways between cities?
>
>Hi,
>
>
>How long (kilometers, number of segments, etc.) should a highway between
>cities be?
>
>At the moment, I'm cutting my GPS tracks into segments that fit into one
>Zoom-12 Tile and create ways that are contained in that tile, but should I
>connect the resulting ways in one? The complete track would have a length
>of about 3000 kilometers (my last voyage in turkey ;-) )
>

Its best to keep ways relatively short, a few km at most. That saves having
to select every segment again if the way becomes damaged or corrupt.

Each separate way can carry the same tags if that is applicable.

Cheers

Andy


Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk

>
>Regards,
>Hakan
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