On 2 July 2010 03:42, Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:23 AM, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> I think the rules for joining segments by osm2pgsql should be something like: >> ... > > But hang on. Do we actually want to "join segments [ways]", or do we > want *separate* ways to share a name label? > > I believe we want the second. Consider a renderer that renders the > lanes=* tag with some style. Say you have two connected ways: > > name=Foo Street > lanes=2 > > and > > name=Foo Street > lanes=4 > > You don't want to "join these ways" with osm2pgsql before rendering, > because you want to render them differently. You probably do, however, > want them to share a name label. Right?
Well, right, not necessarily join ways and then forget the segments. But at some point the renderer has to create a "geometry" that includes both ways, even if it's just to render a text along it. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
