Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Phil! Gold
* Jay Boyer bo...@snhdmail.org [2013-10-10 13:34 -0700]:
 Enterprise is an unincorporated town.  But Enterprise is actually part of Las 
 Vegas and all of the addresses within Enterprise are Las Vegas addresses.
 
 Enterprise is this area:  http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/170132

There are a couple of things going on here.

First, if Enterprise does not have its own government, it probably
shouldn't be boundary=administrative.  I've seen people use things like
boundary=census for unincorporated towns where the town boundary is a
CDP from the US Census data import.

Second, place=locality is for locations that are not associated with a
population center.  Based on my understanding of the tags, for a place
that is considered to be within a place=city, you should use either
place=suburb (for major or notable city divisions, which it sounds like
Enterprise is) or place=neighbourhood.  Nominatim will order either of
those tags hierarchically with the city-tagged place, so address lookups
will work for both Street Name, Enterprise, NV and Street Name, Las
Vegas, NV.

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Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/14/13 9:57 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
 * Jay Boyer bo...@snhdmail.org [2013-10-10 13:34 -0700]:
 Enterprise is an unincorporated town.  But Enterprise is actually part of 
 Las Vegas and all of the addresses within Enterprise are Las Vegas 
 addresses.

 Enterprise is this area:  http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/170132
 There are a couple of things going on here.

 First, if Enterprise does not have its own government, it probably
 shouldn't be boundary=administrative.  I've seen people use things like
 boundary=census for unincorporated towns where the town boundary is a
 CDP from the US Census data import.

this seems like a good solution. i've been pondering what to do with
CDP boundaries for a while.

also, i would be remiss if i didn't point out that post office delivery
addressing
is only vaguely related to the actual administrative boundaries; the
addressing
situation for Enterprise is hardly unique, in fact situations like this
are probably
the norm.

and i bet if you checked with the post office you might find out that
they will
deliver to both Las Vegas and to Enterprise. it's not uncommon for the USPS
to recognize place names that have otherwise been consumed in urban sprawl.

richard




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Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:


 also, i would be remiss if i didn't point out that post office delivery
 addressing
 is only vaguely related to the actual administrative boundaries; the
 addressing
 situation for Enterprise is hardly unique, in fact situations like this
 are probably
 the norm.


Nominatim actually has a major shortcoming in this area. Even if an address
is explicitly mapped with addr:city, Nominatim still goes off of its own
idea of admin boundaries.

For example, try to find this address:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2209426197

Nominatim's result for this address is:
http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=5984097120

Which is reported to be in Rocky Ford instead of Manhattan.

This is kind of a big problem for geocoding in the US...

Toby
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[Talk-us] OSM US Chapter election status

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Welty
The election has closed. We are awaiting check off by our independent
observers,
Henk Hoff and Mike Collinson of OSMF, before announcing the results.

Thanks to everyone who participated,
   Richard




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Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Jay Boyer
I have been looking at the OSM data for Las Vegas and there are some serious 
problems for it.  The OSM boundary for Las Vegas encompasses about half of the 
city.  Certain areas of Las Vegas, including Paradise, Enterprise, Spring 
Valley and probably others are not within the city boundaries defined in OSM.  
To fix this I need to expand the Las Vegas boundaries to encompass of these 
sections.  I have been looking and cannot find a way to do this efficiently.  
Does anybody know of a way (aside from doing this manually) of expanding  and 
area to encompass another?
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[Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all,

Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we
have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel
represents the situation on the ground better than their original
state, and because of that, works better for us. We have received some
feedback on our edits so we wanted to take a step back and see what we
(as the OSM community) think is the preferred way to map these
intersections.

So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one
or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e

One of my colleagues at Telenav has remapped this intersection as follows:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/3491f1fe-6afa-4571-bc43-7cb31c9c2625/9dd47d1445fdcf03d3f0bbd93b8e0f92

The main difference, and the source of some feedback we have received
over the past few days, is that the dual carriageway roads are
straightened out, creating multiple intersection nodes (4 in this
case) instead of the original single intersection node that connects
all the incoming and outgoing ways. That technique turns out to yield
more reliable and correct routing and guidance ('keep left, turn
right') through these intersections in our testing. But of course,
that cannot dictate how we map as a community, so let's discuss.

Some of the feedback we have received about these edits points to a
statement on this wiki page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup#Braided_streets: 'It
is a reasonable and well-used technique to bring the ways of dual
carriageways back to a single point at intersections to facilitate and
simplify the mapping of control devices and turn restrictions.' In my
mapping across the US, my personal experience has been that this
technique is in fact used, but the 'after' technique with straightened
out ways is actually much more common. I personally prefer that
technique as well - I think it is more pleasing to the eye, represents
what is on the ground better, and is and easier to read. So my feeling
was that this mapping practice would not be disputed. It turns out I
was wrong, so I want to see what the consensus is on mapping
intersections of this type - or perhaps there is none and we can work
together to get there?

Thanks,
Martijn
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Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.comwrote:

 Hi all,

 Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we
 have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel
 represents the situation on the ground better than their original
 state, and because of that, works better for us. We have received some
 feedback on our edits so we wanted to take a step back and see what we
 (as the OSM community) think is the preferred way to map these
 intersections.

 So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one
 or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection:


 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e

 One of my colleagues at Telenav has remapped this intersection as follows:


 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/3491f1fe-6afa-4571-bc43-7cb31c9c2625/9dd47d1445fdcf03d3f0bbd93b8e0f92


I've seen more examples of your after photo than the before in my
mapping. I create them by default when dual carriageways intersect.

+1 you're doing the right thing.
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Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Jay,

I don't think the data is incorrect.  If you look at the City of Las Vegas
webmap (
http://clvplaces.appspot.com/apps/interactive/clvpi.htm#ctrLat=36.27433191227921ctrLng=-115.18729447119142zoom=11layers=|10435|10010userMarkers=0mapType=roadmap)
and turn on the Cities and City Limits layers, you'll see that the City of
Las Vegas itself is just part of the Las Vegas urban area.  So,
administratively, those boundaries seem to be correct.

If you're concerned about what shows up in the openstreetmap.org Search (ie
- Nominatim), as Toby said, there are some issues.  However, I think
they're more with how Nominatim uses the data than the data itself.  One
way around it, which I mentioned in an earlier response, may be to use the
zip code instead of city name in a search.

Cheers,
Brad


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 I have been looking at the OSM data for Las Vegas and there are some
 serious problems for it.  The OSM boundary for Las Vegas encompasses about
 half of the city.  Certain areas of Las Vegas, including Paradise,
 Enterprise, Spring Valley and probably others are not within the city
 boundaries defined in OSM.  To fix this I need to expand the Las Vegas
 boundaries to encompass of these sections.  I have been looking and cannot
 find a way to do this efficiently.  Does anybody know of a way (aside from
 doing this manually) of expanding  and area to encompass another?

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Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/14/13 1:52 PM, Ian Dees wrote:



 On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel
 marti...@telenav.com mailto:marti...@telenav.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we
 have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel
 represents the situation on the ground better than their original
 state, and because of that, works better for us. We have received some
 feedback on our edits so we wanted to take a step back and see what we
 (as the OSM community) think is the preferred way to map these
 intersections.

 So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one
 or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection:

 
 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e

 One of my colleagues at Telenav has remapped this intersection as
 follows:

 
 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/3491f1fe-6afa-4571-bc43-7cb31c9c2625/9dd47d1445fdcf03d3f0bbd93b8e0f92


 I've seen more examples of your after photo than the before in my
 mapping. I create them by default when dual carriageways intersect.

 +1 you're doing the right thing.

i consider the after a better approach as well.

richard



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Re: [Talk-us] Question about incorrect data for an administrative area

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/14/13 1:13 PM, Jay Boyer wrote:

 I have been looking at the OSM data for Las Vegas and there are some
 serious problems for it.  The OSM boundary for Las Vegas encompasses
 about half of the city.  Certain areas of Las Vegas, including
 Paradise, Enterprise, Spring Valley and probably others are not within
 the city boundaries defined in OSM.  To fix this I need to expand the
 Las Vegas boundaries to encompass of these sections.  I have been
 looking and cannot find a way to do this efficiently.  Does anybody
 know of a way (aside from doing this manually) of expanding  and area
 to encompass another?


i suggest you look at the TIGER 2013 places file for Nevada and see what
the border is there; you may want to drop the current border and use the
latest TIGER border.

you can grab the 2013 places files here:

http://forever.codeforamerica.org/Census-API/shutdown-2013.html

if you need help getting the boundary polygon out of the shapefile, let
me know, i can give you a process for that.

richard



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Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/14 Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com

 So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one
 or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection:


 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e



I think it is not only ugly and confusing but also pointless. If you insist
on distinguishing between physically separated / not separated carriageways
in the area of a crossing, it would be more straightforward (and a little
bit less confusing) to map this as in the attached screenshot.




 One of my colleagues at Telenav has remapped this intersection as follows:


 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/3491f1fe-6afa-4571-bc43-7cb31c9c2625/9dd47d1445fdcf03d3f0bbd93b8e0f92



this is how we usually do in around here (Europe).

cheers,
Martin
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Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread stevea

So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one
or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e

One of my colleagues at Telenav has remapped this intersection as follows:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/3491f1fe-6afa-4571-bc43-7cb31c9c2625/9dd47d1445fdcf03d3f0bbd93b8e0f92


Hi Martijn:  one thing wrong I do see at this particular 
intersection are extraneous nodes with highway=crossing tags:  two 
extra ones on the (northerly) east-west ped-path and one extra one 
each of the (westerly and easterly) north-south ped-paths.  A fairly 
minor error in the context of your larger question.



The main difference, and the source of some feedback we have received
over the past few days, is that the dual carriageway roads are
straightened out, creating multiple intersection nodes (4 in this
case) instead of the original single intersection node that connects
all the incoming and outgoing ways. That technique turns out to yield
more reliable and correct routing and guidance ('keep left, turn
right') through these intersections in our testing. But of course,
that cannot dictate how we map as a community, so let's discuss.


I do this myself on intersections which have complex two-to-one 
lane collapses in one direction, or two-to-three lane expansions in 
another direction, or even both.  I agree with you that making lanes 
which capture dual carriageway and multiple lanes like this 
accurately represents what is on the ground better, is pleasing to 
the eye both in an OSM editor and on an OSM rendering, AND likely 
results in better routing algorithm results (e.g. for offering turn 
directions).  The wiki entry on Braided Streets notwithstanding.



Some of the feedback we have received about these edits points to a
statement on this wiki page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup#Braided_streets: 'It
is a reasonable and well-used technique to bring the ways of dual
carriageways back to a single point at intersections to facilitate and
simplify the mapping of control devices and turn restrictions.' In my
mapping across the US, my personal experience has been that this
technique is in fact used, but the 'after' technique with straightened
out ways is actually much more common. I personally prefer that
technique as well - I think it is more pleasing to the eye, represents
what is on the ground better, and is and easier to read. So my feeling
was that this mapping practice would not be disputed. It turns out I
was wrong, so I want to see what the consensus is on mapping
intersections of this type - or perhaps there is none and we can work
together to get there?


I don't know what the solution is.  It may be to coexist with BOTH 
types and try to do the best that can be done by smartening up 
routing algorithms to cope with EACH type of intersection as well as 
can be technically achieved.  That seems long-term wise given that 
there will likely be both types of intersections entered into the 
underlying data.


SteveA
California

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Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/10/14 stevea stevea...@softworkers.com

 Hi Martijn:  one thing wrong I do see at this particular intersection
 are extraneous nodes with highway=crossing tags:  two extra ones on the
 (northerly) east-west ped-path and one extra one each of the (westerly and
 easterly) north-south ped-paths.  A fairly minor error in the context of
 your larger question.



+1, and another thing: the street coming from the right should not be
expanded to a dual carriageway at the point where your colleague has done
it, but rather at the latest possible point (i.e. at the first insection
with the N-S-road) if doing it this way.

cheers,
Martin
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Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
To expand on the point of having both methods used, starting with the 
multiple intersection points method, what if all four intersection 
points were under a relation of a group of intersections, and the 
number of lanes on each way was marked? That way, routing algorithms 
could convert from the visually-friendly method to the individual lane 
and single intersection point method.

Saikrishna Arcot

On Mon 14 Oct 2013 05:28:28 PM EDT, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

 2013/10/14 stevea stevea...@softworkers.com
 mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com

 Hi Martijn:  one thing wrong I do see at this particular
 intersection are extraneous nodes with highway=crossing tags:  two
 extra ones on the (northerly) east-west ped-path and one extra one
 each of the (westerly and easterly) north-south ped-paths.  A
 fairly minor error in the context of your larger question.



 +1, and another thing: the street coming from the right should not be
 expanded to a dual carriageway at the point where your colleague has
 done it, but rather at the latest possible point (i.e. at the first
 insection with the N-S-road) if doing it this way.

 cheers,
 Martin


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Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Tod Fitch
The latter (after) version matches the traffic signal wiki 
http://wiki.openstreetmaps.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals#Tag_all_incoming_ways

It makes sense to me and is the way I prefer.

Tod

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Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.com wrote:
Hi all,

Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we
have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel
represents the situation on the ground better than their original
state, and because of that, works better for us. We have received some
feedback on our edits so we wanted to take a step back and see what we
(as the OSM community) think is the preferred way to map these
intersections.

So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one
or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e

One of my colleagues at Telenav has remapped this intersection as
follows:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/3491f1fe-6afa-4571-bc43-7cb31c9c2625/9dd47d1445fdcf03d3f0bbd93b8e0f92

The main difference, and the source of some feedback we have received
over the past few days, is that the dual carriageway roads are
straightened out, creating multiple intersection nodes (4 in this
case) instead of the original single intersection node that connects
all the incoming and outgoing ways. That technique turns out to yield
more reliable and correct routing and guidance ('keep left, turn
right') through these intersections in our testing. But of course,
that cannot dictate how we map as a community, so let's discuss.

Some of the feedback we have received about these edits points to a
statement on this wiki page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup#Braided_streets: 'It
is a reasonable and well-used technique to bring the ways of dual
carriageways back to a single point at intersections to facilitate and
simplify the mapping of control devices and turn restrictions.' In my
mapping across the US, my personal experience has been that this
technique is in fact used, but the 'after' technique with straightened
out ways is actually much more common. I personally prefer that
technique as well - I think it is more pleasing to the eye, represents
what is on the ground better, and is and easier to read. So my feeling
was that this mapping practice would not be disputed. It turns out I
was wrong, so I want to see what the consensus is on mapping
intersections of this type - or perhaps there is none and we can work
together to get there?

Thanks,
Martijn
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Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Stellan Lagerström

I prefer, and always use, the after pattern.

/Stellan

On 2013-10-14 7:42 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:

Hi all,

Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we
have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel
represents the situation on the ground better than their original
state, and because of that, works better for us. We have received some
feedback on our edits so we wanted to take a step back and see what we
(as the OSM community) think is the preferred way to map these
intersections.




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Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread Evin Fairchild
I too prefer the after pattern since it is easier to do, especially when
you are making a road be dual-carriageway by using the parallel way
feature in Potlatch 2. Also, it matches the way it is on the ground better.
Since there seems to be unanimous agreement to map intersections this way,
then I'll change other intersections to match.

-Compdude


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.comwrote:

 Hi all,

 Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections and we
 have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we feel
 represents the situation on the ground better than their original
 state, and because of that, works better for us. We have received some
 feedback on our edits so we wanted to take a step back and see what we
 (as the OSM community) think is the preferred way to map these
 intersections.

 So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where one
 or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade intersection:


 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e

 One of my colleagues at Telenav has remapped this intersection as follows:


 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/3491f1fe-6afa-4571-bc43-7cb31c9c2625/9dd47d1445fdcf03d3f0bbd93b8e0f92

 The main difference, and the source of some feedback we have received
 over the past few days, is that the dual carriageway roads are
 straightened out, creating multiple intersection nodes (4 in this
 case) instead of the original single intersection node that connects
 all the incoming and outgoing ways. That technique turns out to yield
 more reliable and correct routing and guidance ('keep left, turn
 right') through these intersections in our testing. But of course,
 that cannot dictate how we map as a community, so let's discuss.

 Some of the feedback we have received about these edits points to a
 statement on this wiki page:
 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup#Braided_streets: 'It
 is a reasonable and well-used technique to bring the ways of dual
 carriageways back to a single point at intersections to facilitate and
 simplify the mapping of control devices and turn restrictions.' In my
 mapping across the US, my personal experience has been that this
 technique is in fact used, but the 'after' technique with straightened
 out ways is actually much more common. I personally prefer that
 technique as well - I think it is more pleasing to the eye, represents
 what is on the ground better, and is and easier to read. So my feeling
 was that this mapping practice would not be disputed. It turns out I
 was wrong, so I want to see what the consensus is on mapping
 intersections of this type - or perhaps there is none and we can work
 together to get there?

 Thanks,
 Martijn
 --
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 OSM data specialist
 Telenav
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Re: [Talk-us] Complex intersection mapping

2013-10-14 Thread John F. Eldredge
Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
 On 10/14/13 1:52 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
 
 
 
  On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel
  marti...@telenav.com mailto:marti...@telenav.com wrote:
 
  Hi all,
 
  Here at Telenav we have been looking at complex intersections
 and we
  have set about editing some of these intersections in a way we
 feel
  represents the situation on the ground better than their
 original
  state, and because of that, works better for us. We have
 received some
  feedback on our edits so we wanted to take a step back and see
 what we
  (as the OSM community) think is the preferred way to map these
  intersections.
 
  So what are we talking about? Intersections like this one, where
 one
  or more dual carriageways come together at an at-grade
 intersection:
 
 
 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/6438c196-bb92-4f66-81dc-9b75186286ba/0e8f07ff527c6a85c0dec426b9b79f1e
 
  One of my colleagues at Telenav has remapped this intersection
 as
  follows:
 
 
 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/3491f1fe-6afa-4571-bc43-7cb31c9c2625/9dd47d1445fdcf03d3f0bbd93b8e0f92
 
 
  I've seen more examples of your after photo than the before in
 my
  mapping. I create them by default when dual carriageways intersect.
 
  +1 you're doing the right thing.
 
 i consider the after a better approach as well.
 
 richard
 
 
 
 
 
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I agree that the second version is much better.

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