I get that's what's going on, however, here's the thing: Child or solo relations: Forward/backward (and have on the relation, direction=north/south/east/west, not as a role) Parent: north/south/east/west as a role for a member that should be a child relation tagged the same corresponding direction.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 4:44 PM, John Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 27, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to figure out both who and why keeps changing roles on > relations from "forward/backward" which makes sense and can be easily > sorted and checked to "north/south/east/west", > > I have no idea about such things, but maybe they are trying to replicate > the "northbound/southbound/eastbound/westbound" cardinal directions we use > on most freeways in the US. Perhaps they don't want to put it in the road > name, like: " Interstate 8 (westbound)" . In Japan we have the "up" and > "down" concept, leading to town "上" and leading away from the bigger town > "下" to label the different road & rail directions, usually from Tokyo or a > regional capital. Besides the name field for the road, I'm not sure where > to put such information. Perhaps there is some other relation field or > basic tag (cardinal_Direction=*) we can create to tag this information, > though for display purposes, perhaps the name field is best. Thoughts? > > Javbw. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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