[OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

[Konrad Skeri]

This could be solved with the proposed relation=segmented_tag (which
seems to be abandoned, and I would prefer the name relation=segment)

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Segmented_Tag

The relation takes one way and two nodes on the way as members. Then
this segment can be used as a member in bus route relations etc. The
benefit would be that the way could be kept as a single way and not
split in more or less every crossing.
While this would not solve the problem over night it might be a more
stable model for future use.

Konrad

2010/7/1 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
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