On Friday 11 November 2011 14:01:05 Gerard Vanderveken wrote: > When the node is not part of the highway, its position left or right > from the highway is enough to determine the apllicable direction of the > way.
Many traffic signs are placed on the left side of the street, and not all of them are just a repeater of the sign on the right... Furthermore there's the problem at junctions, bridges, multiple roads right next to each other, etc... > But I would always tag nodes of the highway itself, for not having > the confusion where a node belongs to. > Apart from indication of the exact position, I don't see any good > reasons to put signs outside the highway or to map them as sign in the > first place. It's exactly what our Flemish agency is doing with their "Verkeersbordendatabank" http://www.mobielvlaanderen.be/verkeersbordendatabank/index.php Ben _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be