[OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

[Jacek Konieczny]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:16:41AM -0700, Simon Biber wrote:
> "zverik at textual.ru" <zverik at textual.ru> wrote:
> > Those names are not rendered, obviously, because most streets consist of
> > several 
> ways, due to routing and public transport reasons.
> 
> Hmm, what routing reasons? 

Different parts of the street may be part of different public transport
relations.

> However, in your example area, many of the streets are divided into what seems like an unnecessarily large number of ways. If the tagging doesn't change between adjacent ways, then shouldn't the ways be merged into a single way?
> 
> For example, on Малый проспект В.О. (Maliy Avenue of V.I.) the following consecutive ways all have exactly the same tags:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/31374333
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/31395443

These two are parts of different set of relations. I have not checked
others.

Greets,
        Jacek