[josm-dev] Relation editor support for north/south and east/west similar to forward/backward

[Richard Welty]

On 11/26/13 4:51 PM, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Most streets are not strictly on the 90° raster and signposts are
> only rough directions.
>
> Addings this to OSM might make it much more difficult for Data Consumers
> to process and interpret data.
>
what Martjin is after is improving the situation for routing
engines that use OSM data. in the US at least, highways,
regardless of their actual direction, are assigned cardinal
directions and signage frequently uses those directions.
the premise is that if the cardinal directions are recorded
in an appropriate manner (e.g., as the roles for ways in
a route relation) then they are available for the spoken
directions from a routing widget of some sort.

richard


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