That makes sense, especially if there already is backrest=left|right|middle|none. LM
2012/8/5 Peter Wendorff <wendo...@uni-paderborn.de>: > Am 05.08.2012 18:10, schrieb LM_1: > >> For direction of the benches mapped as ways I would use analogous* >> rule to cliffs and retaining walls, that is: If you hold the bench >> with left hand (from the sitting side) you are looking in the same >> direction as the way. In other words backrest on left side of the way, >> sitting side on right side of the way. > > -1 > As there are a lot of benches without a backrest, I would not introduce a > default value here, as there's always a "need" for backrest=*. Your proposed > default would reduce backrest=left|right|middle|none to backrest=yes for the > default value, but you could not rely on that. > > There's no benefit as we don't need less tags, and it's less valuable as > backrest=yes without that "default" would work as a fallback (there's a > backrest, but I don't know, on which side). > > That's the difference to the retaining walls: a retaining wall is retaining > something from moving to the other side - that's what defines it as a > RETAINING wall. > > regards > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
