Ben Laenen wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Karl Newman wrote: > >> On Jan 2, 2008 6:20 AM, Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Alex S. wrote: >>> >>>> Maning Sambale wrote: >>>> >>>>> But no option for selection one or series of segments in way? >>>>> Using josm 486 version. >>>>> >>>> There are no more segments as of API v0.5. You reuse nodes, >>>> instead. >>>> >>> Am I btw correct in thinking that with the new three-layered way of >>> tagging things (nodes-ways-relations) that it's best to have split >>> ways on every node where another way meets it? So, instead of one >>> big way long as I used to tag things, now a separate way between >>> every crossroad? >>> >>> Ben >>> >> I hope that's not being encouraged. Ways should not be split just >> because there's an intersection. Ways should be split only when the >> properties of the way change (i.e., speed limit changes, or way goes >> over a bridge, etc.). Having lots of little streets is almost like >> having segments again. It's not very efficient. >> >> Karl >> > > But when only part of a road belong to a specific route, you need to > split it up again to make that part belong to the relation. I guess > it's not needed for all roads, but when adding bus routes, cycle routes > and maybe what else there is to add, the effect would be that the roads > would have to be split up... > > (On the same note, I find it quite easy to mess up relations by joining > different roads again into one at the moment :-) ) > Hehe, I just wrote a message about that in another thread. I was wondering about that for a while now.
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