don't split route lines at import

[marcosfede]

Hello, I downloaded the osm data for my region and I want to make spatial querys (for example, does this route intersect with these two points/areas? ) for bus routes.
I can see that the bus routes are being split into several chunks, specially when the bus makes a circle (there are lots of circular parks in my area).

the way I'm importing the data is

osm2pgsql -E 3857 --cache-strategy sparse --slim -d mydb -H localhost -U myuser -P 5432 --hstore --hstore-add-index file.osm

I have also tried using the -G parameter, but the routes keeps splitting up into chunks.

How would I import the data without splitting the bus routes?
Thanks in advance

[pnorman]

type=route relations cannot always form a contiguous linestring, so may end up producing multiple rows. Even where they can form a single linestring, they can be split for length.

I have also tried using the -G parameter, but the routes keeps splitting up into chunks.

Yes, -G is for multipolygons only.

[marcosfede]

Is there a way I can consolidate the rows to get a single linestring?
the problems seems that when the route enters a rondabout the line splits, example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5419031
has http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23187155 in it , and the route is being split at that point.

[lonvia]

The new 'flex' output allows to customize the splitting of route relation lines (including creating one big multiline).