2009/11/9 Thomas Wood <grand.edgemas...@gmail.com>: > Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: >> Brian Prangle wrote: >> >>> Sent: 09 November 2009 11:14 AM >>> To: Talk GB >>> Subject: [Talk-GB] Underground Pipelines >>> >>> We have several oil terminals just to the E of Birmingham and wandering >>> around the countryside I come across loads of pipeline markers. In places >>> there are enough to join them up with man-made=pipeline ways. My problem is >>> how to tag the direction of flow. The oil pipeline markers have the >>> direction of flow indicated on them ( gas ones don't). I've tagged the >>> pipelines as oneway=yes which results in mapnik rendering little blue >>> arrows in the countryside. Whilst this is to me ( who's mapped them) a good >>> indicator of the presence of a buried pipeline it will probably be >>> meaningless to any one else. Any opinions out there? >>> >>> >> >> That exactly how I'd tag them. The rendering engine needs to be a little >> cleverer and not just blindly render all oneway=yes tags. >> >> Cheers >> >> Andy >> > Pipelines explicitly work in only one direction, why not just require a > pipeline way's direction to be that of flow and not bother with the > redundant oneway=yes tagging?
I bet that is not true. I can think of at least one case where a pipeline will flow in both directions. Not at the same time, obviously. :-) -- Philip Stubbs _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
