Gervase Markham wrote: > What's current tagging best practice with things which are to the left > or the right of a way (e.g. bus stops)? > > A nearly-approved proposal for a canal-side object has been objected to > by someone who thinks that the tag should be on a node which is part of > the canal rather than next to it, with left/right indicated as part of > the tag key name. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Mooring > > Do we do that for any other tags? Do we have highway:left=bus_stop? > > Gerv
Personally I add the node to left of the way, not as part of the way. I believe the OSM theory is that the way represents the middle of the road. So things like mini-roundabounds and traffic lights are part of the way (ie road), but a bus stop is off to the side of the road. A similar thinking is obvious in the Karlsruhe House Address Scheme (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema), since the buildings that are numbered are not physically in the middle of the road, they are added as nodes to the left or right of the way. Rory _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
