[Tagging] differences on wiki about roles of relation route.

fly lowflight66 at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 8 12:48:07 BST 2010


Am 08.06.2010 12:57, schrieb Andre Engels:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:36 PM, fly <lowflight66 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> There exists major differences on wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route
>> between german and english.
>>
>> All the roles with ...:number are striped out on the german page.
>>
>> There is no role link on the german page.
>>
>> The definition in german for forward/backward say you should use it for the
>> direction of the route but it english it says to use it for the direction of the
>> way.
> 
> German: "forward" = [falls eine Route nur in einer Richtung benutzt
> werden kann] in Richtung des Wegelements
> English: "forward" means the route follows this way only in the
> direction of the way
> 
> What's the difference between those two, to me they say the same.
> 'Forward' means: the direction of the route is the direction of the
> way; 'backward' means: the direction of the route is opposite to the
> direction of the way.

Sorry, you are right.

Anyway there is a forward_stop/backward_stop which differs in its meaning to
forward:stop/backward:stop that way.

Thanks so far




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