[OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

[John Smith]

On 1 July 2010 17:59, Igor Brejc <igor.brejc at gmail.com> wrote:
> This results in even more complicated situation and even more work to
> maintain such data. And even if do you follow this practice, there will
> still be huge amounts of "legacy" data which do not.
> I think if two streets share the same name and are adjacent to each other,
> it is reasonable for renderers to assume it's the same street.

Depending on the number of segments it would still make more sense to
put this information into a relation, since you are reducing the
amount of redundant data.