[Tagging] route/forward/backward members in all types of routes

Selfish Seahorse selfishseahorse at gmail.com
Tue Jan 9 21:40:10 UTC 2018


On 9 January 2018 at 19:57, Fernando Trebien <fernando.trebien at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was about to fix a mistake I caused in the map due to these
> contradictions in the wiki, then I found a problematic case [1].
>
> According to PTv2, this route needs to be broken into two, one per
> direction, and a route_master relation must be created for them.
> Without the forward/backward roles, I believe applications will not be
> able to easily find out the direction of travel of either since the
> route contains a single way, unless they parse the from and to tags,
> which are not required to match station names.

The course of the route is determined by the order of the stops in the
route relation. Therefore forward/backward roles would be redundant.

Regards



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