[OSM-talk] Left and Right - a proposal

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> someone suggested a while back on talk, that once a way is drawn, we 
> don't allow it's direction to be changed and for one way streets, we use 
> oneway=-1 if it is pointing in the wrong direction. this could be 
> enforced for any tags (including incline) that rely on the direction of 
> the way.

The API currently does not look at the contents of tags. I do not think 
it would be wise to introduce anything relating to tag syntax/content at 
the API level.

> this could be done at a suitable bump in API, and the command removed 
> from the available list, so non-compliant editors can't reverse a way

There is no command for reversing a way on the API level. If you tell 
your editor to reverse the way, what the API sees is simply a new 
version of the way being uploaded; the API does neither know nor care 
that this version is the same as the previous version, just reversed.

Bye
Frederik

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