[OSM-talk] correctly mapping avenues

Karl Newman siliconfiend at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 00:27:49 GMT 2008


>
> | I am against east/west/north/south because there are a lot of
> | ways/areas/things which do not go straight ahead.
>
> But they nearly all run nearer to one of those directions than they do
> to any of the others. If you want to say that a North East road is one
> way, you can call it North or East - there is no contradiction. Pick the
> one it is closest to, or either if the road is really exactly at 45
> degrees.
>

Umm... What happens if the road is not straight, but in fact winds around
quite a bit? Then left and right are still unambiguous, but cardinal
directions are definitely not.

Karl
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