[Tilesathome] newbie q a bit off topic: streets with different directions but same name

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

>> It would be nice if there was a process to merge them. IIRC we  
>> decided
>> it's ok to merge them. You're not removing as much data as you think,
>> because the underlying nodes are numbered and from there we can  
>> always
>> identify the section we want.
>>
>> I'm wondering myself if something could be added to mapnik to at  
>> least
>> fix it there.
>>
>> Have a nice day,
>
> Is this not what relations are made for? I guess there is still no
> render support for that, but the data correctness should always trump
> rendered output, imo.

Ways could be combined into "superways" or "way groups" even now,  
without breaking anything at the moment, and when renderers support  
this they would be expected to use the "parent relation"'s tags.  
Here's the proposal:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/ 
Collected_Ways

Bye
Frederik

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