[Tagging] direction=forward/backward on nodes ?

[Steve Doerr]

I'm surprised that so many people are jumping to this conclusion. Let's 
remember that a way is just a series of nodes in a particular order. So 
a node is not necessarily an isolated object. In many cases, it exists 
solely as part of a way. Thus the concept of direction is not 
meaningless for a node which is part of a way. I haven't examined any 
uses of the tag on a node, but I can imagine, for instance, that a node 
in a way with a direction attribute might be used to represent a 
road-sign that applies only to traffic on the way passing that node in a 
particular direction.

Steve

On 12/04/2014 18:43, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> Since a node is a point, and has no dimensions, a direction tag is meaningless.
>
>
> On April 12, 2014 12:20:26 PM CDT, fly <lowflight66 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hey
>>
>> As I had much fun with the last subject (noexit), I just can not hold
>> myself back to jump into another bee nest.
>>
>> I read on the wiki page [1], that direction=forward/backward are valid
>> values also for nodes.
>>
>> Could someone please explain me, how this can work.
>>
>> I only find some major reasons not to do that:
>> * You always have to look at the parent object to determine the
>> direction
>> * There is no editor supporting this tag when reverting a way
>> direction
>> * I am not allowed to split a way at this point which is another
>> unneeded burn and once again you need special editor support which is
>> not present.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> fly
>>
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