[Tagging] trees and waterways

Cartinus cartinus at xs4all.nl
Sun Sep 12 19:00:38 BST 2010


On Sunday 12 September 2010 19:39:01 Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote:
> Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> >   On 9/12/10 12:29 PM, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote:
> > > If we really need a tag to indicate river flow, it can't be oneway.
> > > And if we define a tag for flow, how would you define the direction,
> > > what would be the reference ?
> >
> > you'd want it to work with respect to the direction of the way, as
> > is done with oneway.
> >
> > a waterflow=* tag would probably look very much like oneway,
> > with -1 for flow which is the reverse of the direction of
> > the way.
>
> So the reference for direction would be the direction (drawing) of he
> way. It would be close to what it's now as it's this drawing direction
> that should indicate the flow.
> But it would be explicit.

And then you would only tag the special cases. We don't put oneway=no on every 
road either.

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus



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