On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 09:55:03PM +0200, bkil wrote: > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 10:27 PM OSMDoudou > <19b350d2-b1b3-4edb-ad96-288ea1238...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > Maybe leverage the existing direction tag (fire_hydrant:opening:direction) ? > > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:direction > > > That sounds like a reasonable idea - I see that it is widely used. > Although it is unfortunate how much bulk it adds. > > Instead of > fire_hydrant:opening=cw > fire_hydrant:opening=ccw > > You need to type: > fire_hydrant:opening:direction=clockwise > fire_hydrant:opening:direction=anticlockwise > > Also, because the primary usage for `direction` usually relates to > heading, you could interpret the tag as an answer to the question "in > what direction does the opening of the fire hydrant face"?
What about using the standard engineering terms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_thread#Handedness fire_hydrant:handedness=right fire_hydrant:handedness=left _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging