[OSM-talk] Re: One way streets
Richard Fairhurst
richard at systemeD.net
Tue May 16 20:01:29 BST 2006
Raphael wrote:
> that's totally unuseable from a machine's point. it has no
> understanding of north or south or whatever. all it knows is, we have
> a segment with 2 points, and you can go from a to b and / or from b to
> a
if segment.node1.long > segment.node2.long { direction=east }
else { direction=west }
...surely?
I'm tempted to agree with Oliver. The danger of having 'one way'
dependent on the direction of the segment is that, if a segment is
accidentally reversed, the data becomes wrong. Having 'oneway=NE', or
whatever, is independent of this.
Richard
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