On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/6 Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Karl Newman wrote: >>> Sounds like you're looking for this: >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Segmented_ >>>Tag >> >> Segmented tags doesn't solve data duplication for dual carriage ways, or >> a set of roads with lots of cul-de-sacs with the same name, and similar >> situations. > > is there any reason why the data model has to have ways which are > single direction and linear? by which i mean, why can't a single way > be branched in shape?
They were in the beginning, but being non linear made it hard to place labels on street on streets and thus screwed up renderers. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
