[Tagging] Waterway direction

Pierre-Alain Dorange pdorange at mac.com
Wed Sep 1 07:16:21 BST 2010


Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >> > A bug... there is few maps (even commercial) that "render" the flow
> >> > direction. I dont see this issue as a bug but perhaps a missing feature
> >> > or a request feature.
> >>
> >> It's a bug given the current tagging standard. All the eyeballs in the
> >> world can't find an error if they don't see the error.
> >
> > Mapnik is a bug detector or a map ?
> > For bugs in data there is other tools that the main OSM map, its purpuse
> > is for end user, not mapper.
> 
> Are you saying waterway direction is not important for the end user?

No, just that the purpose of Mapnik is to render a map not to helpmapper
to correct data, but i've allready written that.

> If so, then why do we assign such importance to it that we require
> that the way be drawn in that direction?

I'm talking about data, not rendering.

so "flow_direction" ?

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Pierre-Alain Dorange




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