Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: If you label all three ways with name=Foo Street, you get Foo Street rendered 3 times along a fairly short length, at least in Osmarender. If you leave the name off the outer ends, then those ways are incorrectly assumed to be unnamed streets when they have a name. In

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: If you label all three ways with name=Foo Street, you get Foo Street rendered 3 times along a fairly short length, at least in Osmarender. If you leave the name off the outer ends, then those ways are incorrectly assumed to be unnamed streets when they have a name. In

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-28 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: I think the obvious thing is to quit splitting ways

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-28 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Dave Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Thread Gervase Markham
I have a situation (which I suspect is very common) where a street is split into e.g. 3 ways, because the middle one is part of a bus route or other relation. If you label all three ways with name=Foo Street, you get Foo Street rendered 3 times along a fairly short length, at least in

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 27 Jul 2008, at 20:09, Gervase Markham wrote: I have a situation (which I suspect is very common) where a street is split into e.g. 3 ways, because the middle one is part of a bus route or other relation. If you label all three ways with name=Foo Street, you get Foo Street

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Thread Gervase Markham
Shaun McDonald wrote: The renderers need fixed, if they can't cope with this kind of data. Indeed. My question is: can they? :-) Mapnik will only write the name where there is space for it. Right, but that's precisely the problem. It writes it three times when I really only want it written

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Thread Steve Chilton
Sent: Sun 7/27/2008 8:53 PM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Cc: Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations Shaun McDonald wrote: The renderers need fixed, if they can't cope with this kind of data. Indeed

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Thread Karl Newman
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a situation (which I suspect is very common) where a street is split into e.g. 3 ways, because the middle one is part of a bus route or other relation. If you label all three ways with name=Foo Street, you get

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Thread Henry Loenwind
Gervase Markham wrote: Indeed. My question is: can they? :-) (The opposite problem is the very long road which is a single way. The name should regularly repeat, but I don't think it does on either Mapnik or Osmarender.) I have proof-of-concept code for Osmarender (or to be more correct:

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Thread Gervase Markham
Karl Newman wrote: I think the obvious thing is to quit splitting ways just because there's a bridge or the speed limit changed... IMHO, the only reason to split ways is if the name changes or if the major type changes. Er, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not possible to apply a tag to only

Re: [OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

2008-07-27 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Newman wrote: I think the obvious thing is to quit splitting ways just because there's a bridge or the speed limit changed... IMHO, the only reason to split ways is if the name changes or if the major type