[OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

[Roy Wallace]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:37 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wasn't suggesting to map each lane separately, however an editor
> could display lanes and it would be so much better to display them as
> parallel ways which could be edited if they needed to be.

John, do you concede that there are some situations where lanes are
not parallel or are separated? How would you propose to model those
situations? Do you concede that sometimes there is a need to map an
individual lane as a series of nodes (way), and that in those
circumstances there is a need to group lanes (ways) with a relation?

Also, how would you propose to model transitions between sections of
ways with different lane configurations, if lanes are not individually
modeled as a series of nodes (way)?