* Paul Johnson <[email protected]> [2011-06-29 14:52 -0700]: > On 06/29/2011 11:49 AM, Nathan Mills wrote: > > My personal preference is to use directional roles so that they match > > what is written on signage. It also avoids the inevitable "which way is > > forward and which is backward" question. > > One should hope the software can figure that out based on the overall > orientation of the relation.
I would prefer directional roles, because you can't always determine the signed directions programmatically. I've seen quite a few roads which could be either north/south or east/west depending on how and where you look at them. I've also seen roads that predominantly go in a particular direction but which are signed the other way by the entity maintaining them. The tagging should match what the signs on the ground say. -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- "Where did you put it?" "Put what?" "You know." "Where do you think?" "Oh." -- Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab, stating his ideal model of human-computer interaction. ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
