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Surely I'll earn 10 demerits with this question but how do I see on a bidirectional road what is forward, what is backward? Example: A road drawn in 2 pieces. When I put a stop sign on one part, the 'beam' points to the left, when putting a stop sign on the second part, the 'beam' points right. Practically each time I have to test a road section what is forward and what's backward, in the silliest example the road goes to Elice, destination:forward=Elice. On the next crossing the destination, following the beam lead, it becomes destination:backward=Elice although we're still travelling west. The wiki says something inconclusive to me literally 'how it was drawn'. What's the visual cue I'm missing? |
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Every way in the OSM database ha a direction. This direction is marked in the editors with a little arrow
so if I put a stop sign at the end of this way, the "direction:forward" follows the direction of the way (in this case, from right to left), while the "direction:backward" goes against the way's direction (in this case, from right to left) direction=forward direction=backward 4
Bwilliantly simple, never looked for them to be pointing anywhere, only used them as a point to grab to add a node by wiggle or add a curve. thumbs up.
(16 Jan '21, 13:23)
SekeRob
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@Mannivu. It looks to me that the captions on the last two images are switched. I expect that in the last one, where the viewing angle points in the same direction as the arrow on the way is direction=forward
(19 Jan '21, 07:28)
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