Andy Allan wrote: >And nobody pays attention. The main problem is that two-way roads have >no inherent, real-world, "direction" - neither side of the road is the >right or the left. Or rather, both sides of the road are the right or >the left, depending on which way you are facing.
And that's why in real-world you would say "Look in the direction to the railstation and then the church is on your left." If you want to describe objects with a handedness you'll need some concept of sides. If you call it left/right, green/red or "nearer to some related point at the side"/"farther from ..." doesn't really make a difference. Perhaps, if always the same proposal is made ("Let's use the order stored in the db to define a /direction/ of a way and then use "right" and "left" to /name/ the sides.") this is the most user friendly method? Norbert "has followed the discussions for only the last 1 1/2 years" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk