[OSM-talk] Left and Right - a proposal

[Elena of Valhalla]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM, spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de> wrote:
> [...]
> I do like the "north, south, west, east" of a way. even if ways are moved somewhat they will still remain valid.
> You would have to move the ways a lot (turn it to be more precise) to make it point into the wrong direction.

for a point feature this would be fine, but for a linear feature it
may be a problem on a road that turns, e.g.

/-------
|
\------>

here the left side is on the south, east and north of the road

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