[OSM-talk] correctly mapping avenues

[bvh]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:20:02PM +0100, Bernd Raichle wrote:
>  > > (a) the direction is too easily changed, sometimes by mistake
> ... because none of the current OSM editors show direction- or
> side-related tags explicitly.

Merkaartor does for the direction related tags it understands.
I need to add support for more such tags though.

> I am against east/west/north/south because there are a lot of
> ways/areas/things which do not go straight ahead.

Yes.

> A few days ago I have started a new proposal for a "Segmented Tag",
> which relates a set of tags to a directed or undirected part of a way
> (I have called this part "segment" inspired by GDF's "Segmented
> Attributes").  I have not found the time yet to finalize the proposal
> adding some examples, nonetheless it can already be found in the OSM
> Wiki (Relations/Proposed/Segmented Tags).

I am not really sure about this. Just splitting the ways seems
less complex?

An obvious problem with your proposal seems that it does not
specify what happens with conflicting segmentations (ie,
way A-B-C-D-E and segmented relation X says from A till D is
90kmp maxspeed and segmented relation Y says from B till E is
70kmp maxspeed.

cu bart