> > 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
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