On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote: > On 27/07/2010 15:58, Anthony wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:27 AM, David Earl<da...@frankieandshadow.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> You cannot tell from our model, without additional information such as a >>> relation, whether two parallel ways are part of a dual carriageway or >>> just >>> parallel roads. >> >> What's the difference? Just whether or not they have the same name? > > That's not sufficient. You'd have to do some kind of heuristic test to see > whether they were approximately parallel as well
You said they were parallel. Twice in fact. > But you're right to some extent, so I revise my statement: "You cannot > *easily and accurately* tell from our model..." Personally I think the name of the road should be part of a relation which consists of all ways which make the road, not tagged on every single way individually. If that's what you're getting at, I agree. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
