Well, I don't know about Hebrew. But at least some of the languages that use Arabic script (there are many) write the sentences and words from right to left, but the numbers from left to right. I have no idea about Chinese/Japanese etc. But I think that left to right for numbers, while not universal, is possibly the most known version.
Stephen 2009/8/20 Yann Coupin <y...@coupin.net>: > Plus what does "inner" mean on a oneway road? I think it's crucial > that lane 1 is either left or right depending uppon what is decided > but that it stays the same accross the world. It'll be unusable > otherwise. > > I propose 1 is left because we start to write from the left. It's > completly arbitrary, but that way at least it follows a logic that > stays the same accross the channel :) And since the tags are in latin > characters, it's just to be consistent, not to ignore people writing > in arabic or hebrew (if people still take offense, I did my best not > to ;) > > Yann _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk