On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:55 AM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing to remember, as well, is that there are likely to be differences of > opinion on > whether disjoint segments are to be considered part of the same street or > not. For > example, the street I live on was divided into two separated sections about > 50 years ago, > when an Interstate highway was built. I consider both segments to be part of > the same > street, but others might well differ.
Yes, this an extremely common situation in the United States (and quite a pain for emergency services, or at least it was in the pre-GPS days). > Also, there are several occurrences in Nashville, Tennessee (where I live) of > different, > unrelated streets that share names, due to the city expanding over time and > including > what had once been separate communities. So, having any sort of automated > process > join these streets in a relation based upon shared names would result in > confusion. Can you give two or three examples, so I can file them as a reference on this topic. Or maybe add them to a wiki page discussing the topic. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
