On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Some of you may remember the discussion we had on tagging cardinal > directions in the US, which led to the wiki page[1] describing the current > practice. > Basically the convention we arrived on is to tag relation members with > role=north/east/south/west to indicate cardinal direction. > This is backed up by usage in the US. About 75% of way members of > Interstate road relations have directional role members[2]. > Can we *not* do this? Can this *not* be a thing? Can we instead go route master and only have child *relations* have cardinal roles, with child ways being exclusively forward/backward? Because cardinal directions on the ways themselves is 1) ambiguous AF and 2) breaks validation on a level that it can take hours to days for experienced editors to manually validate, and can't be automated as a result.
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