Even though the reply was in the wiki and not here, I think this should be considered by those interested in the problem: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Public_Transport#route.2Fforward.2Fbackward_and_special_scenarios
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 5:41 PM, Fernando Trebien <[email protected]> wrote: > So these roles should not be forbidden, at most they should be > inadvisable unless necessary. > > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Ilya Zverev <[email protected]> wrote: >> Fernando Trebien wrote: >>> >>> >>> According to PTv2, this route needs to be broken into two, one per >>> direction, and a route_master relation must be created for them. >>> Without the forward/backward roles, I believe applications will not be >>> able to easily find out the direction of travel of either since the >>> route contains a single way, unless they parse the from and to tags, >>> which are not required to match station names. >> >> >> Exactly, you found one case when the role is useful. I use it in the Subway >> Processor/Validator for this. >> >> Ilya >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > -- > Fernando Trebien > +55 (51) 9962-5409 > > "Nullius in verba." -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "Nullius in verba." _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
