Hi Florian, It's more like a designation than a destination, so I think the destination tag would not be very appropriate for this. An Interstate has a cardinal direction, and when giving directions you would say for example 'enter Interstate 80 west'.
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Florian Lohoff <f...@zz.de> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 03:46:47PM -0700, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> So the relation between the east--west and north--south member roles >> is equivalent to the relation between forward--backward. >> >> Because the cardinal direction is commonly included on the road signs >> (see example >> http://www.aaroads.com/west/new_mexico010/bl-010_eb_at_i-010.jpg) >> this information is useful in the U.S. (and Canadian) context as a >> drop in replacement for the traditional forward / backward role >> members. > > I still dont get it - Which relation would need this as a role? > > If this is a signposted destination i would expect it in the > destination or destination:lane tag on the road as west e.g. > > destination:lanes=West;Los Angeles|East;Boston > > For example Mapfactor Navigator will use this to show destinations. > > backward/forward as role are in relation to the ways direction. A tag > can either have a meaning in forward or backward or both directions > on a way. There is no way a tag has a meaning in 56° left of the way. > > Flo > -- > Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIVAwUBUpWbWZDdQSDLCfIvAQhY8w/9FskAH+at4ET9dCpGAxZ6pIAfRUre9LmV > q95AMRW+s83yMrm4ztIDAxsvpc/VaMagly+b6XnoLFFkv7x6KH546Babw/RphFbw > uspFpY+JSkEbY2BGmz4DAH7jAhmYWPDpLvoHXf9oCMUWoWUONygMqppXFdGgkBbL > 4/YZSmKleIbVhoCtQsfzCDhHCsvV2NaM9JjCUClGAMgZF2TNmqY7jhEiqA8AQxNV > 5skaECB08Ay/3kO22+T6Zk6mV3uTYIq7v+nbG++MCeS0XcHz1AHrTvXo5bYtIKRU > qBDXkhvlLtrSICW1W4ML6+jWSv8s4d1Rvkx5GesAIB9+o6GAE2NMpcZCopl6pe9F > GrXLk+rAqUMMVLEBp6rV4zq2cpaQ3ZUwLKaSmS9hWbfijpxT2hKLYcXLeYOVm0GC > EEtRxziPQPM4J1a2g1SMqEwPL40XFnj/O21hCzNAMoRMyRwRwkHB8p+WxssP8tAu > YpzJuWosMX3ZVdDehVb4PSqSNSUH2KXk6uS7vQzIPNQp52s1gCl9HplzC9pUqbQ3 > BAOKmPmoJJVMSziNRMhAnnHT7NwxgQg3dDDC8QXkZ58h8n6WCBTcSLgMhW7Ctd3f > 7SJ3Zbp6BQHU4oV/bN6MSh/JsQshuvosnPzsDvaBxYChQjmRuxfSmPMDmgtRC91z > fbRRKUaWVIo= > =51kM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/ _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
