"Karl Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> "Karl Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Sounds like you're looking for this: >> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Proposed/Segmented_Tag >> >> This can not cross way boundaries. If someone splits that way in >> between to and from there is a problem. >> >> Matthias >> > > That's exactly the point--that tagging scheme is intended to get away from > splitting ways. If this were to be adopted, the need to split ways would be > greatly reduced. Splitting ways would probably need to be made non-trivial > by the editors and it would take some careful support for copying the > relevant tags to new relations and modifying the old ones.
Ways need to be split - we can not have the whole world in one single way. If some of the data has to be duplicated the usefulnes of the tagging scheme is allready greatly reduced. Matthias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk