On Jul 25, 2008, at 13:13, David Earl wrote: > I've thought about not tagging for the rendering (and name finder is a > kind of renderer), but there isn't a simple algorithmic solution. > While > it might be possible to do some analysis of connections to try to > determine when two things are part of the same, this is a very > expensive > calculation in what is already a slow process, which makes > practicality > difficult, though not impossible; but in the case of indicating the > preferred branch, I think this is a matter of judgement and can't be > done algorithmically from the information that's already there (I > could > do some guesses based on length of number of nodes perhaps, but it > would > always be heuristic). Doing that might be useful anyway, but I don't > think it will provide a perfect solution in all cases.
An alternative to search=yes that might be more generally useful is to group parts of a street into a relation (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Relation:street) . That would be an object you could point to. It would also be possible to mark spurs with role=spur if that would help. Cheers Robert _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk