[Tagging] Route relations - Forward & Backward

Dave F. davefox at madasafish.com
Fri Sep 5 12:39:17 UTC 2014


On 05/09/2014 12:31, Jo wrote:
>
> In bus route relations the ways don't get roles.
>
Why's that? How would you tag a circular route that goes only clockwise?

> In this case some ways would be members twice.
>

As the Relation's IDs aren't necessarily consecutive, how does a router 
know which to follow? Or is there a way to sort them into order?

> In walking and cycling route relations we do use them. Those are 
> bidirectional, whereas the bus and tram routes describe start to 
> terminus for all variations.
>

I'm unsure how you can suggest bus routes aren't bidirectional. They can 
go both ways along a way the same as walkers/cyclists.

Dave F.



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