[OSM-talk-be] Some maxspeed mapping questions

[Gerard Vanderveken]

Ben Laenen wrote:

>On Friday 11 November 2011 09:50:16 Gerard Vanderveken wrote:
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>>Ben Laenen wrote:
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>>>This is an unsolved question... Some may use directions like N/E/S/W for
>>>north/east/south/west. But then you also need to be able to attach the
>>>node to the proper way (bridges and dual carriageways make this a
>>>difficult problem).
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>>I would rather use the left / right suffixes in stead of directions, as
>>they define the position always clear
>>(eventually  forward / backward, but it seems somewhat deprecated)
>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/right_left
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>But this doesn't work for single nodes not connected to a way. 
>Left/right/forward/backward become pretty meaningless on single nodes :-)
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>Ben
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When the node is not part of the highway, its position left or right 
from the highway is enough to determine the apllicable direction of the way.
But I would always tag nodes of the highway itself, for not having the 
confusion where a node belongs to.
Apart from indication of the exact position, I don't see any good 
reasons to put signs outside the highway or to map them as sign in the 
first place.
Their consequences are applicable to the highway segments an that's what 
and where it should be tagged.

Gerard
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