Martijn van Exel

> On Jan 18, 2017, at 9:35 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org 
> <mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> wrote:
> I am trying to be consistent with the outcome of the discussion that we had 
> on talk-us a couple of years ago. Right now both are used 
> (north/south/east/west as relation member role as well as direction on the 
> relation tag) but the former is used way more often. That’s why I am 
> suggesting going with the practice that has surfaced as the most popular, as 
> well as the outcome of earlier discussion. 
> 
> Perhaps I am not understanding you correctly, but I am *not* suggesting to 
> use tags on ways to indicate cardinal direction, just assign roles to 
> relation members. Agreed that adding this type of info to ways makes it 
> impossible to validate / maintain.
> 
> Right, I think we're on the same page.  I'm also suggesting it's high time we 
> revisited the issue as the tools to handle managing north/east/south/west 
> roles (as opposed to forward/backward) just plain never materialized.  If it 
> was going to happen, it would have already happened (it's been years!).

What tools were you thinking about? I remember submitting a patch to JOSM a 
while ago which did not get accepted.. That’s all I did on the tools end of 
things. Agreed support could be better.

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