On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I'm a bit unhappy about needlessly inflating the importance of the > direction of ways. Long-term, I would actually like to get rid of the > direction and express everything in relations. The reasons for this > are
Hehe. The last time I said on #osm "we got rid of segments, now let's get rid of ways" I met stiff resistance :) But moving to relationship will not help you getting rid of direction : to represent a way you need to order your nodes and order implies direction. > (a) the direction is too easily changed, sometimes by mistake That is a problem with the editors. I think we are in a good position to improve on this. > (b) there might be multiple conflicting things that rely on the > direction, e.g. a road that is oneway from A to B but has a > slope from B to A That is why we have oneway=-1 cu bart _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
