Chaos99's diary
Still progress on turning restrictions?I was just putting this on the discussion page for the restriction relation.
Thought mentioning it in the blog might produce even more answers:
== Progress ? ==
So is there any further progress here? The proposal is old, it sneaked into an established state by now. As far as I understand there is no voting/approval process for restrictions, so these things go merely unnoticed.
By now the restrictions are widely used and understood by renderers, format converters (Garmin) and routing tools.
Nevertheless turning restrictions are still one of the things most annoying when missing (wrong in-car routing) and a pain in the a** if you have to edit them. So they are missing in a lot of places, as they seem to be to complicated (annoying?) to most mappers. The proposed changes could have brought a bit of ease, but as there is no official approval process, they were never voted on or anything (and they are not noticed now cause they only reside somewhere in the middle of the english discussion page).
As I am no veteran here, I would like to make a simple question: Do you (all the osm activists and full time mappers) think it is still possible to change anything about this relation? Or are these to widely used by now?
Do you think a new 'proposal' would be more of use then new discussion about changing the old one? Or do you even think all is fine with the turn restrictions and all problems should be solved in the editing tools?
I was writing a long summary of problems and possible solution here, but momentarily I think it might be futile and a waste of time. Do you think otherwise?
Comment from Paul Johnson at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:58:58 +0000
It's in live use. Go for it. Lemme know if you have some local mappers, I might consider pulling some slides together.
