[OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

[Roy Wallace]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:23 AM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think the rules for joining segments by osm2pgsql should be something like:
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But hang on. Do we actually want to "join segments [ways]", or do we
want *separate* ways to share a name label?

I believe we want the second. Consider a renderer that renders the
lanes=* tag with some style. Say you have two connected ways:

name=Foo Street
lanes=2

and

name=Foo Street
lanes=4

You don't want to "join these ways" with osm2pgsql before rendering,
because you want to render them differently. You probably do, however,
want them to share a name label. Right?