On Feb 11, 2008 10:36 AM, Martin Trautmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Karl Newman wrote: > > To me, the nodes and ways > > should follow the physical world as much as possible--the road didn't > change > > just because the speed limit changed, so why chop it up? > > I changed the subject now - and I agree, roads should be kept as roads. > The more details you add, the more fragments you would get. When a > proprety of the road at its full length does change, you have to adjust > every single piece. > > There are occasions where a certain split has to be done. Take e.g. a > national route which passes several cities. It could be called e.g. "B3" > (which would be the German Bundesstraße 3) which is several hundred > kilometers long and passes through dozens of towns and villages. > Whenever the town boarder is reached, the B3 may follow a line of > residential roads. I feel that a split is required here - the full > length of the road can be found by the ref tag. > That seems like a reasonable approach--see my reply to Bernd's email in another forked thread. The way should be long, but not unreasonably so, and if the name or highway type changes, that seems like a logical place to split it. Karl
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