Excuse me while I but in... I'd agree that Left/right doesn't feel like the right solution - I've got a different idea for a solution which doesn't seem to have been suggested.
For me the whole problem comes down to the fact that in the current representation there is no concept of a WIDTH of a way - or at least not one that is respected by any of the software. This means that positioning items at the 'edge' or 'inside' of a way becomes a complete mess. If instead we give the way a width then the problem becomes a lot simpler. The bus stop, cycle track or lane gets created in its actual physical location (as near as possible) and gets marked with a 'child of' relationship to the parent way. Width is either a standard default based on the 'highway' or an actual measurement. Because of the 'relationship' software that wants to render the way at a different size can either scale the way (and contents) or drop back to the standard way representation. Seems pretty clean to me - so what am I missing!? -- Brian On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Bjørn Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Karl Newman wrote: > > > I don't know why everyone's opposed to left/right. It's unambiguous, > > > and properly structured it would not be difficult for > > > editors to accommodate it. > > > > Hmm, IMO neither north/south, nor left/right are a good solution for > > this problem. The only clean solution would be a relation, saying > > something like "feature=abc from node=x to node=y". > > > > Bjørn > > > > You still haven't solved the left/right problem. For example, house numbers > are commonly even on one side and odd on the other. How do you indicate > odd/even with the "from...to" structure you mention without using left/right > (or some equivalent)? Or what about bus stops which are only on one side of > the road (arguably a more difficult problem)? > > Karl > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
