[OSM-talk] non-linear ways

[Lars Aronsson]

Simon Hewison wrote:

> It's non-linear because if you follow the direction of the 
> segments as they are laid down, some of them are facing 
> 'backwards'.
> 
> This isn't very important for footpaths (though it helps 
> Osmarender to label correctly), but it's pretty much vital for 
> motorways and one-way streets, when route planning software 
> starts looking at "oneway" labels)
> 
> These are rather obvious when you look at this in a recent JOSM 
> with the arrowheads turned on.

If this is important, we better ban the applet, since it doesn't 
enforce nor indicate any directionality of line segments.  Or it 
didn't last month, anyway.  If you start to "clean up" the map, 
applet users will create the mess anew.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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