[OSM-dev] Ordering of Segments within Ways

[Etienne Cherdlu]

On 4/11/06, Immanuel Scholz <immanuel.scholz at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Any chance of getting this feature in JOSM any time soon?
> > Any chance of being able to change the direction of segments any time
> > soon?
>
> Although implementing features always gets the most applause from users, I
> insist to implement the timestamp-checking stuff first ;-). Don't know how
> long this will take, but I am also busy doing boring real life stuff these
> days.. :-(.

No problem.  You do a great job, anything you do is always much appreciated.

Just wanted to make sure you knew that if you did these things then
there would be a real use for them.

> > One additional consideration when rendering text along a path is that
> > the segments have to be drawn in the correct direction.  I'm currently
> > getting ways like "Frankfurt am Main" being rendered as "FrankM ma
> > trufain" until I turn around the segment.
>
> >From the applet?? I doubt that, since the applet just drops the name over
> the middle segment (the middle segment in the array)  ;-).
No, in Osmarender.  It draws the text along the path in the direction
of the segments.

--
Etienne