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Ben Laenen wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Friday 11 November 2011 09:50:16 Gerard Vanderveken wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Ben Laenen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">This is an unsolved question... Some may use directions like N/E/S/W for
north/east/south/west. But then you also need to be able to attach the
node to the proper way (bridges and dual carriageways make this a
difficult problem).
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<pre wrap="">I would rather use the left / right suffixes in stead of directions, as
they define the position always clear
(eventually forward / backward, but it seems somewhat deprecated)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/right_left">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/right_left</a>
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But this doesn't work for single nodes not connected to a way.
Left/right/forward/backward become pretty meaningless on single nodes :-)
Ben
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When the node is not part of the highway, its position left or right
from the highway is enough to determine the apllicable direction of the
way.<br>
But I would always tag nodes of the highway itself, for not having the
confusion where a node belongs to.<br>
Apart from indication of the exact position, I don't see any good
reasons to put signs outside the highway or to map them as sign in the
first place.<br>
Their consequences are applicable to the highway segments an that's
what and where it should be tagged.<br>
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Gerard
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