On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've started using forward/backward roles rather than north/south/east/west > on relations for state highways, due to JOSM's relation editor supporting > sorting by them and Nakor's tool
Nakor's tool for ... ? Link? > (which was already less convenient, given > that you had to upload to OSM and get the relation number) being down. I've > been leaving U.S. Highways alone (Interstates don't matter either way > because they're almost always dual carriageway), but this means that there's > no way to check for completeness of a relation. > > How much uproar would there be if I started changing to forward/backward > roles in conjunction with checking for completeness? Is there any benefit to > the slightly increased amount of information provided by the directional > roles? Are there any other solutions? It appears from > http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/5109 that the JOSM devs are not > interested in supporting directional roles. I'd expect that we need a much stronger argument in favour of removing the additional information provided by the directional roles. It is dead simple to reverse the direction of a way and break your proposed forward-role, while directional roles would be fine. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us