[Talk-us] [josm-dev] Relation editor support for north/south and east/west similar to forward/backward

[Paul Johnson]

Still feeling that cardinal directions only belong as roles in for child
relations in super-relations.


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to this list so please bear with me.
> The relation editor currently only parses 'forward' and 'backward'
> roles when considering the visual representation in the rightmost
> column. In the United States, north/south and east/west are very
> common as member roles for road routes, because that is how they are
> officially signposted.
>
> There was some discussion in the original relation editor enhancement
> ticket: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/5109#comment:42 where
> Petr_Dlouhy dismisses support for these member roles.
>
> I want to reopen that discussion and see if there is support for
> treating north/south and east/west as first class citizens similar to
> forward/backward in the relation editor (and perhaps in other parts,
> perhaps the validator and way direction reversing code?).
>
> I am crossposting to talk-us because this discussion is going on there
> at the moment.
>
> I would be more than happy to put in some of the work required to
> implement this support.
>
> Thanks,
> Martijn
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