Martijn van Exel > On Jan 18, 2017, at 9:35 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org > <mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> wrote: > I am trying to be consistent with the outcome of the discussion that we had > on talk-us a couple of years ago. Right now both are used > (north/south/east/west as relation member role as well as direction on the > relation tag) but the former is used way more often. That’s why I am > suggesting going with the practice that has surfaced as the most popular, as > well as the outcome of earlier discussion. > > Perhaps I am not understanding you correctly, but I am *not* suggesting to > use tags on ways to indicate cardinal direction, just assign roles to > relation members. Agreed that adding this type of info to ways makes it > impossible to validate / maintain. > > Right, I think we're on the same page. I'm also suggesting it's high time we > revisited the issue as the tools to handle managing north/east/south/west > roles (as opposed to forward/backward) just plain never materialized. If it > was going to happen, it would have already happened (it's been years!).
What tools were you thinking about? I remember submitting a patch to JOSM a while ago which did not get accepted.. That’s all I did on the tools end of things. Agreed support could be better.
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