On Sun, May 24, 2020, 18:51 Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> wrote:

> On 5/24/20 15:26, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> > I just noticed an apparent contradiction regarding the use of the oneway
> > tag between the wiki pages key:oneway
> > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:oneway> and motorway
> > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway> .
> > The former states:
> > "Some tags (such as junction
> > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:junction>=roundabout
> > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout>, highway
> > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>=motorway
> > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway> and others)
> > imply oneway=yes and therefore the oneway tag is optional,
> > the latter states:
> > "These ways should all point direction of travel and be tagged with
> > oneway <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:oneway>=yes"
> > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:oneway%3Dyes>
> >
> > What is the agreed standard, if any?
>
> It can't hurt to specify oneway=yes. I have noticed that the JOSM style
> that shows lane counts and lane use will sometimes not show ways
> properly if oneway=yes isn't there, but that's probably a bug in the
> style more than an indictment of implying oneway=yes.
>

I'm on the side of "team tag explicitly" on this.  If anything, it gives
validators more to work with if you start doing something weird.

>
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