[OSM-talk] tagging roads

[Roy Wallace]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Richard
Mann<richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com> wrote:
> My inclination would be to put widths on nodes, since they are measured at
> points, but that might not be too helpful for renderers. But I don't think I
> really want to break a way every time I do a measurement (I did one
> particular stretch of road every 10m).

No, I would mark width on a way - just use your judgement as to when
the way needs to be split. Apply the width to a section of way, and
the width should describe roughly the narrowest width on that section.