[OSM-talk] Advanced Relationships

[Matthias Julius]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> writes:

> Frederik Ramm schrieb:
>
>> A bad thing, because it is not always obvious to which road such a  
>> "number node" belongs. That's probably the same problem that has been  
>> discussed a while ago, and applies equally to bus stops, telephone  
>> cells and so on - we do not currently attach them to a road, and  
>> association is by proximity only.
>
> you can use untagged segments for that, or even a way that just says the
> start node is somehow connected to the end node, or the way of that end
> node.

I was thinking about that before.  We could invent highway=virtual to
connect POIs to the road system.  They would never be rendered but
autorouters could use them to direct people to the right side of a
building for example.

Matthias