On 3/31/2011 1:25 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
On 3/31/11, Nathan Edgars II<nerou...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm wondering if there would be any support for a
flow=forward/backward/etc. tag for waterways. This would make the flow
direction explicit, and would provide a machine-readable way to tag
unknown or abnormal flow.
Nope.... it's actually just a rendering rule that can be created.
If the direction of the way is drawn in the same flow of the water, it
should always be drawn with an arrow.
That's a big if. Probably about half the waterways I've come across
where I knew the flow direction were mapped the other way.
As I mention, there's also the case where the mapper doesn't know the
direction of flow, or where flow is stagnant, reversing, or otherwise
abnormal.
As a similar example, see motorways and motorway_links. Even though
oneway=yes is implied, many mappers, myself included, will still add
that tag. There's also oneway=no to override the default.
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