Lars Aronsson skrev: > Alex Mauer wrote: > >> It also has the problem that ways can easily get reversed, and >> then the left/right meanings are backwards. > > A bus stop is an attribute on a node (highway=bus_stop) in the > middle of a way. If I want to indicate that this bus stop is on > one side of the street, left and right don't matter much, since > there can be two ways both pointing towards the node. It would be > better to use the words north, east, west or south. If the way > goes from south-west to north-east, then "north" and "west" both > mean the left side of that way. > >
Shall we paint the outhouse red, green or blue ?? It doesn't matter if the busstop is on the right or left side of the road... Neither OSM wise, nor in the real world. In the real world you use your eyes and see the busstop. With regards to OSM, you apply a tag to the node indicating position of the busstop, relative to the road. I.E : k="placement" v="left|right|middle" It doesn't even need to be rendered on the left or right of the road on the map, but it could be. We are not trying to make a virtual copy of the world with the rendered maps, we are trying to make a fairly accurate visual representation of the world with the maps, that can be used to orientate and possibly even navigate around in the real world. Compromises are made everyday on the renderings of both our and any other maps. Thats one of the parts of cartography - Deciding what compromises to use in order to make a map for a specific purpose. So just tag it with common sense, instead of having 2 months of discussion on the mailing list - Next people will want to set down subcommittees that need to deliver reports on best practices for mapping the wastebaskets and their type at the busstops, which then has to go through a hearing in the OSMF, and put to a consensus vote twice in a year, before being vetoed by some goat-hearder mapping trails in outer mongolia, since he doesn't think a wastebasket position should be mapped at all, if goat-dung positions isn't mapped as well... We could call it "Working the EU-OSM way..." Dutch _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
