[OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

[Erik Johansson]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/8/6 Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>:
>> On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Karl Newman wrote:
>>> Sounds like you're looking for this:
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Segmented_
>>>Tag
>>
>> Segmented tags doesn't solve data duplication for dual carriage ways, or
>> a set of roads with lots of cul-de-sacs with the same name, and similar
>> situations.
>
> is there any reason why the data model has to have ways which are
> single direction and linear? by which i mean, why can't a single way
> be branched in shape?

They were in the beginning, but being non linear made it hard to place
labels on street on streets and thus screwed up renderers.