On 2014-05-15 13:43, Philip Barnes wrote:
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 09:46 +0200, Marc Gemis wrote:
Left and right is decided by the direction of the osm-way. Not by
east/west/north/south.
BTW, in Brussels we have streets with 4 official names : left/right,
French/Dutch :-)
Rather than left/right should we not be using forward/reverse (or is it
backwards) as with sidewalk tagging?
No, sidewalks should be tagged as
sidewalk=left/sidewalk=right/sidewalk=both etc.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sidewalks
Because that is where they are physically located, relative to the
direction of the way. So the same should apply to names, ie
name:left/name:right
Forward or backward is for things which depend on which way you are
travelling, ie different speed limits or access restrictions.
One question I also have, if a road is reversed does forward/reverse
tagging get automatically corrected?
That depends on what editor you are using. JOSM does prompt you if you
reverse a way with most forward/backward or left/right tags, and asks if
you want to change them to the opposite.
Though testing now, it seems this doesn't work with
name:left/name:right, seems to be a bug.
Craig
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