[OSM-talk] Left and Right - a proposal

[Andy Allan]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net> wrote:

> So you might have a road way with a node somewhere in the middle

That's the main problem. You are now making a proposal that
distinguishes nodes at the end of a way from non-terminating nodes -
since only those in the middle can inherit a sense of direction from
the way.

If I've split a road in two because it's 5 metres wide then becomes 10
metres wide after the bus stop, and the ways point in different
directions, then the node can't be a bus stop - and that's hardly
intuitive.
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I'm also with frederick on the left/right thing (most bus stops are
'on the left', as far as I'm concerned - even when they are on
opposite sides of the road) and the other objection with compass
directions is valid for U-shaped roads.

The latitude and longitude of point objects should be as accurate as
we can make them, and if they need some form of logical linking with
something then we can logically link them without creating bogus
latlongs :-) Oh, and bus stops are positions on the pavement that the
bus stops beside, not just level with a particular catseye on the
centerline of the road :-)

Cheers,
Andy