On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> "this way has to be reversed to form a linestring with the others", more like "the direction of the route is with/against the direction of the underlying way" > while > others seem to use "backward" as "the bus only uses this section of road on > the return journey". Which is, and always has been, completely stupid. > But I have not systematically looked into this. Someone should perhaps do > that. - Most route relations are probably not directional (cycle routes come > to mind). Bear in mind that cycle routes are one of the earliest and heaviest users of forward/backward roles. It is easy to find them on opencyclemap, e.g. at http://osm.org/go/euu4OUOi?layers=C I'm disappointed to see that whoever came up with the new PT schema didn't understand what these roles are useful for, which was nothing to do with the overall route characteristics (towards or away from one particular place), instead they are for expressing the relation between the direction of travel and the direction of the way. The separation of every bus routes into two bus routes, one for each direction, even when they are simply duplications of one another, is surely a waste of time and effort. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
