[Tagging] Any support for a flow tag?

[Paul Norman]

I've been working on a draft to deal with this question.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/directional

I haven't moved it to RFC yet since I want to polish it a bit more, but a
couple of things to note.

- Currently every waterway is equivalent to directional=yes. If it's been
drawn in the opposite direction, it's been drawn incorrectly.

- I prefer directional=* over flow=*. Flow could be confused with the
quantity of water, whereas the proposal is concerned with the direction
only. An intermittent stream on the side of a steep hill has minimal flow
but is definitely directional.

- The rendering rules to implement this are pretty easy to write

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:neroute2 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:44 AM
> To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools
> Subject: [Tagging] Any support for a flow tag?
> 
> I'm wondering if there would be any support for a
> flow=forward/backward/etc. tag for waterways. This would make the flow
> direction explicit, and would provide a machine-readable way to tag
> unknown or abnormal flow.
> 
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