On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Ilya Zverev <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How about just using a tag to indicate direction? >> direction= > > There are a couple of such proposals in the wiki, see links at the bottom > of the discussed proposal. The purpose of relation is not only to state the > direction of a point feature, but also sometimes link it to the surrounding > features: for example, a direction of a sign is determined by the road > segment leading to it. Also, this is much easier for mappers and consumers > than to calculate degrees.
Fundamentally, I think we need to remember that OSM is not intended to be a true representation of the world, but rather a logical representation. The direction that a bench, or a sign faces is not significant from the perspective of a map. When you get to the object, you'll see its direction, and you don't need to know the object's orientation to get there. The problem with a direction tag is that then suddenly every object has a direction relation, and we make editing the map far more complex. A simple tag seems the right solution in the rare circumstance where that's needed. - Serge _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
