On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Jo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > > Lars Aronsson wrote: > > > >> J.D. Schmidt wrote: > >> > >> > >>> 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. > >>> > > > > > >> Of course it matters which side the bus stop is on. You don't > >> want to enter a bus that goes the wrong way, so you have to go to > >> the right stop. This is as fundamental as which bus lines the > >> stop is for. > >> > > > > I agree with LA here. Sometimes a bus stop would be on both sides of the > > road. Sometimes it would only be on one side while the one for the other > > direction is around the corner. Not having this kind of data is (in my > > personal data model view) not acceptable :-). > > Al left/right is a bit ambigious, so far I tend to draw little service > > roads and have a bus stop there. > > > > As for data, I tend to favor bus_line=123;direction=southampton or > > something similar. (or direction=north would also be a good way). > > > Over here, most bus stops serve for more than one line, so north/west > etc makes more sense to me than Brussels North Station/Airport personnel > parking lot. Which are totally different locations where the different > lines happen to go to. > > Polyglot >
This seems to further highlight a need for a generic way to treat direction-sensitive information, in a way that can be processed by editors to automatically switch the left/right or whatever if a way is reversed. I know key namespaces are generally shouted down, but it would be a straightforward way to deal with this. i.e., left:bus_stop or left:house_number or left:my_heart_in_san_francisco. :-P If a way was reversed, the editors could change all the left: to right: Would need to apply to relations, too, though, and it starts to get tricky. But at a minimum, if a way is reversed, and it belongs to a relation containing direction-sensitive tags, the editors could prompt the user to confirm the action. Just brainstorming here, I welcome your thoughts. Karl
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