>Also, I'm not up on cycleway lane tagging, and on a section where >there are lanes both sides, is cycleway:left=lane and >cycleway:right=lane correct, as per merge tool suggestions? Also, >the merge tool is showing a suggest of Lane with a capital letter, >which I think should be lower case. > >Ed
Hi Ed, >From what I understand the cycleway:left=lane (& right) is the correct way to tag these. The choice of 'left'/'right' depends on which way the road is drawn in OSM. As you probably already know all roads (ways) have a direction which can be found by selecting the way and looking for the arrow next to the rubbish bin icon. 'Left'/'Right' is then based on the direction of the way, therefore you will need to make sure that OSM's and DfT's ways are drawn in the SAME DIRECTION before merging! As noted in a previous post, most other tags use 'forward'/'backward' rather than left/right. Personally I think this would be a better tag as it provides the data that routing software requires (without the need to know which side of the road each country drives on). On the flip side, it would make rendering a little harder. Good Luck, Rob p.s. Do we know if DfT use the "opposite_lane" tag value? I never really did understand the benefit this tag brings over left/right.
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