[OSM-talk] non-linear ways

[Raphael Jacquot]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> 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.

erh, why not fixing it instead ?
IMI ???