Dave Stubbs wrote: > The only way of avoiding this issue in some non-confusing way is to > not use tagging as the answer. Some complex relation with a "this > side" member which still needs editor support. Or just adding another > way to the database for each left/right feature, which becomes hard > when you try to connect things together.
Particularly when one of the side things you might want to tag is a cycleway or a strip of parking between the vehicle carriageway (part of our concept of a highway) and the foot sidewalk/pavement (also included in our highways, as a sort of bonus feature). Sticking your fingers in your ears and humming is a *fine* strategy to adopt when people begin talking about relations for this sort of thing, particularly when you can assume that there'd probably be a fairly reasonable, natural spatial hierarchy to such things. OSM simply doesn't tag to that degree of detail most of the time. If it did, it'd be implemented as a full-on GIS system. I personally want a system where I never need to tag things like http://realcycling.blogspot.com/2009/02/arrowing-experience-in-tavistock-place.html in any level of detail other than "cycleway=aaaargh! (on the left)" But saying "has some things along the side of it" is something we can do already. It'd be helpful sometimes to add "on the left" to that. -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
