[OSM-talk] Directional tagging

[Robin Rattay]

Martin Norbäck schrieb:
>>> The advantage of having a simple tagging mechanism like this is that
>>> the editors can easily prevent accidental reversal of a way, like josm
>>> does right now with oneway. There are probably other uses for this
>>> kind of scheme. And it doesn't really fit into a relation either.
>> JOSM will already allow the reversal of tags that are direction specific.
> 
> I think that was what I was saying above, yes. So it should be easy to
> extend it to handle the forward:/backward: prefix.

I think what Shaun was saying, that JOSM already does that, too :-)

It currently supports "forward/backward" and "left/right" as both prefix
and suffix and both tag names and relation roles.

Robin