[Talk-us] Relation roles

[Nathan Mills]

 My personal preference is to use directional roles so that they match 
 what is written on signage. It also avoids the inevitable "which way is 
 forward and which is backward" question.

 On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:44:45 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> I've started using forward/backward roles rather than
> north/south/east/west on relations for state highways, due to JOSM's
> relation editor supporting sorting by them and Nakor's tool (which 
> was
> already less convenient, given that you had to upload to OSM and get
> the relation number) being down. I've been leaving U.S. Highways 
> alone
> (Interstates don't matter either way because they're almost always
> dual carriageway), but this means that there's no way to check for
> completeness of a relation.
>
> How much uproar would there be if I started changing to
> forward/backward roles in conjunction with checking for completeness?
> Is there any benefit to the slightly increased amount of information
> provided by the directional roles? Are there any other solutions? It
> appears from http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/5109 that the JOSM
> devs are not interested in supporting directional roles.
>
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