[Tagging] length=

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 04:18:57PM +0100, Martin Vonwald wrote:
> 2015-01-27 16:13 GMT+01:00 François Lacombe <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I personally recommend to use the length key while mapping street cabinets
> > as nodes.
> > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dstreet_cabinet>
> 
> On a node it makes perfect sense. At least as long as it is not
> possible/wanted/allowed to provide the geometry.

Does it ? I cant think of any application where this makes sense.
A node does not have an orientation so why can it have a length?

If it has a length it does not make sense to use a node.

Flo
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