[OSM-talk] house numbers revisited

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Martijn van Exel <mvexel at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Pitfalls include:
>  >
>  > * what if way direction is reversed?
>  > * what if way is extended, merged, split?
>
>  That will be a problem indeed. Could theoretically be solved with
>  strong editor support, but that does not fix the intrinsic flaw. You
>  never know when a script comes around that reverses direction for some
>  valid reason, outside the editors. Someone on talk-nl suggested using
>  a NSEW-based tagging scheme, but this is not unambiguous either.

I say these problems are irrelevent right now. We have other tags
(like oneway) which break when roads are reversed and that doesn't
seem to excite anyone enough to fix it. I'd say ignore that problem,
when it gets solved for other tags, it'll get solved for these also.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/