On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Peter Wendorff <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31.08.2010 20:58, David Earl wrote: > > Just to throw something else into this discussion... > highway=steps > It doesn't (or at least, isn't documented as) have direction, but _could_ > have in the same way as rivers (direction of way is down the steps, say). > > To quote the wiki: (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Steps) > "Discussion whether the direction of the way should point up- or downhill is > so far been inconclusive. It's possible to tag this explicitly using > incline=up or incline=down. An alternative unofficial way has been to use > direction=up or direction=down, which are equivalent to the incline tags." > > I think, incline and direction are both accepted and widely used; I often > tag both to make it useful to as much applications as possible. > But there is nothing like "steps are always drawn in direction from low to > high" - at least that's not documented.
Couldn't incline=up/incline=down work for waterways too? Then incline=down could be default, and incline=unknown could be added where the incline is unknown. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
