> It's been defined for countries, and is used on it, as you said.
I don't think I said that, all I said was "according to taginfo it is used
only *once* on a relation".
If people aren't going to use it, I intend to restrict it's use to streets.
It seems it wasn't formally proposed anyway.
I don't see why there should be any distinction regarding the driver's side.
One more thing: this only makes sense if there is no physical barrier
> between the opposite traffic directions. If there is, then it's just a
> separate way with no special change in driving side.
>
The streets I mentioned do not have any physical barrier. Also, there are
some signs indicating they use an inverted driving side ("Mão inglesa")
This is one of these streets: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/266622965
2014-03-21 17:24 GMT-03:00 Fernando Trebien <fernando.treb...@gmail.com>:
> I wonder what you mean by "Is there any interest of using it on
> countries?". It's been defined for countries, and is used on it, as
> you said.
>
> You could simply tag the country with "driving_side=right/left" and
> use the same (but with the opposite value) on those streets.
>
> That said, I think driving side also implies "driver side" inside the
> vehicle. Though I find it very unlikely to see this information in use
> one day, it's best to define this meaning early on. A change of driver
> side requires either a change of vehicle or some special vehicle that
> can drive on both sides. In the case of your city, driving side
> changes, but driver side doesn't. You could include that in the
> description of "opposite".
>
> One more thing: this only makes sense if there is no physical barrier
> between the opposite traffic directions. If there is, then it's just a
> separate way with no special change in driving side.
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Fernando Trebien
> <fernando.treb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:07 PM, John Packer <john.pack...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> There is a tag documented on the wiki called driving_side=right/left.
> >>
> >> According to it's description, this tag should only be used on
> countries,
> >> and it describes the side of the traffic in the whole country.
> >>
> >> So far so good, but according to taginfo it is used only once on a
> relation,
> >> however there are some uses on some ways, and even nodes(?).
> >>
> >> There are, in my city, a couple of streets that have an inverted driving
> >> side.
> >> So I am going to extend this tag's documentation to include ways that
> have
> >> it's driving side opposite to it's country's normal driving side.
> >>
> >> Is there any interest of using it on countries?
> >> If there is not, I will exclude the possibility of use on countries from
> >> this tag's documentation.
> >>
> >> Perhaps, with this new definition, this tag could be redefined to have
> only
> >> one value: driving_side=opposite
> >> (this way, it could avoid any confusion about it's use)
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
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