Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists <andrewc-email-lists <at> piffle.org> writes: >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/right_left >> >> The proposal suggests an interpretation of suffixes like >> >> <property>:left=<value> >> <property>:right=<value>
> I see one big trouble. If not so clever editor (program or human being) is > changing the direction of the road withour swapping left/right keys, nobody > can > correct the situation without local knowlegde of the area mapped. Left or > right > are not enough by themselves but there must be some additional information. > "Left is in the west" tag would give more exact information as well as "Left, > as > user xx saw it on January, 29th 2009". Also true of oneway, of course, yet people seem to cope with that :) Corner case I just though of: oneway:left and oneway:right. Arguably a bit contrived and pointless, but presumably you'd have to flip twice... I'd say that the software aspect covered under http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/right_left#Consequences_for_software , but if you think we're missing anything, do comment on the wiki page. -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
