[OSM-talk] superways as relations ?

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>wrote:

> "Karl Newman" <siliconfiend at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> "Karl Newman" <siliconfiend at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Sounds like you're looking for this:
> >> >
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Segmented_Tag
> >>
> >> This can not cross way boundaries.  If someone splits that way in
> >> between to and from there is a problem.
> >>
> >> Matthias
> >>
> >
> > That's exactly the point--that tagging scheme is intended to get away
> from
> > splitting ways. If this were to be adopted, the need to split ways would
> be
> > greatly reduced. Splitting ways would probably need to be made
> non-trivial
> > by the editors and it would take some careful support for copying the
> > relevant tags to new relations and modifying the old ones.
>
> Ways need to be split - we can not have the whole world in one single
> way.  If some of the data has to be duplicated the usefulnes of the
> tagging scheme is allready greatly reduced.
>
> Matthias
>

Umm... That's not what I was saying. It's not even possible to have the
whole world in a single way. I was just arguing against splitting ways due
to attribute changes which have nothing to do with the way itself (i.e.,
bridges, speed limits, etc.). A reasonable approach would be to split ways
only if the name or major (highway) type changes. Obviously for dual
carriageways, too...

Karl
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