I'm surprised that so many people are jumping to this conclusion. Let's
remember that a way is just a series of nodes in a particular order. So
a node is not necessarily an isolated object. In many cases, it exists
solely as part of a way. Thus the concept of direction is not
meaningless for a node which is part of a way. I haven't examined any
uses of the tag on a node, but I can imagine, for instance, that a node
in a way with a direction attribute might be used to represent a
road-sign that applies only to traffic on the way passing that node in a
particular direction.
Steve
On 12/04/2014 18:43, John F. Eldredge wrote:
Since a node is a point, and has no dimensions, a direction tag is meaningless.
On April 12, 2014 12:20:26 PM CDT, fly <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey
As I had much fun with the last subject (noexit), I just can not hold
myself back to jump into another bee nest.
I read on the wiki page [1], that direction=forward/backward are valid
values also for nodes.
Could someone please explain me, how this can work.
I only find some major reasons not to do that:
* You always have to look at the parent object to determine the
direction
* There is no editor supporting this tag when reverting a way
direction
* I am not allowed to split a way at this point which is another
unneeded burn and once again you need special editor support which is
not present.
Cheers
fly
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