Stephen Gower wrote: > I see from later posts that you also suggest using this scheme for cycle/bus > lanes to indicate which side of the road they should be rendered.
Did I? > This > highlighted to me a general problem with the scheme. For rendering the > scheme is perfect - drawing a bus stop or a cycle lane on one side of a road > is exactly what is needed. However, for routing you need to know which > direction a bike may travel along a cycle lane, or which direction buses > from a stop will be heading. To derive a travelling direction from the > Left/Right terms a routing engine is usually going to need to know the local > "rule of the road" - do we just leave this to the routing engine to factor > in (needing to work out where in the world it is), or is there another > simple solution I've missed. Surely the routing engine needs to know this already, for example to take you up or down the correct ramp at a motorway interchange? Gerv _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
