[OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:59 PM, 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.

Definitely. I would go so far as to say that two connected ways should
render identically to if they were a single way, except for the actual
differences in tags between them. That is, the mere fact of being two
ways or a single way should make no difference to the rendering -
that's an error.

I can imagine situations where a renderer would want to repeat a
street name, or place the street name across the gap (eg, when a
street changes category, and hence rendering colour), to make clear
that the two share a name, however. But that should be a deliberate
business rule.

Steve