> -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Williams [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 21 August 2012 09:32 > To: '[email protected]'; 'Tag discussion, strategy and related tools' > Subject: RE: [Tagging] Carriageway divider > > From: Jo [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 20 August 2012 10:06 > To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools > Subject: Re: [Tagging] Carriageway divider > > > > For which purpose would the two highways be "reassembled"? > Split highways may be reassembled when you're not interested in the > attributes that do change between them. For example when you want to > reassemble the portions of the same road with the same class and name > together but aren't interested in the fact that the speed limit changes > partway down, the lighting changes, the surface changes, or that a small > portion of it has a cycle or bus route which crosses it for a few tens of > metres. If building a routing graph from the data you'd want to keep the > graph as simple as possible by ignoring the tags not relevant to your > routing and reassembling the adjacent otherwise identical segments. > > You mean one can do this in postprocessing, not in the OSM-database. > Otherwise I'd have a lot of work (again) to fix the route relations I'm > tending > to. > > Polyglot
Yes, I do of course mean that this is a postprocessing step and not in the OSM database. Gregory _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
