On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> "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 > Umm... That's not what I was saying. It's not even possible to have the whole world in a single way. I was just arguing against splitting ways due to attribute changes which have nothing to do with the way itself (i.e., bridges, speed limits, etc.). A reasonable approach would be to split ways only if the name or major (highway) type changes. Obviously for dual carriageways, too... Karl
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